There's the other Brian McNeill song about the real hero of the piece, Flora MacDonald. Nothing like the sentimental tosh of The Skye Boat Song, Strong Women Rule Us All tells of how she was exiled to the Carolinas and then had to witness her husband recruited into the English royalist army in the War of Independence:

There's a moment of your story
That has always haunted me
When you set out in yon open boat
To help the poor man flee
Was Charlie Stuart's future
Already plain to see
Did you know he'd be a waster all his days?

Charles Edward Stuart was a member of the pan-European Catholic aristocracy who could barely speak English, never mind Scots. I don't think he had a great deal in common with the ordinary clan people and their aspirations, only his own megalomaniac ambition.