Lyr Req: Iona Boat Song

16 Dec 96 - 06:02 PM (#802)
Subject: Lyric request: Iona Boat Song
From: Valerie

I almost remember singing a song at school, about the practice of burying the Kings of Scotland on the island of Iona. Does anyone out there have the lyrics?

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26 Jan 97 - 09:57 PM (#1650)
Subject: RE: Lyric request: Iona Boat Song
From: Anne Cormack

Valerie, I don't know of this song, but I'll have a search through my song book collection for you - and the music library in Perth (Western Australia that is - I left Scotland some years ago!!!)

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29 Jan 97 - 06:20 PM (#1725)
Subject: Lyr Add: IONA BOAT SONG
From: [e-mail] Gene Graham

Softly glide we along,
Softly chant we our song,
For a king who to resting is come;
Oh, beloved and best,
Thou art fairing out west,
To the dear isle Iona, thy home.

Calmly there shalt thou lie,
With thy fathers gone by,
Their blood mingled deep with thine own;
Ne'er again to awake,
Till the last morn shall break,
And the trump of the judgment is blown.

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16 Feb 97 - 10:02 AM (#2269)
Subject: RE: Lyric request: Iona Boat Song
From: Valerie Hendry

Thanks very much.

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