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01 Oct 98 - 04:15 AM (#40140) Subject: Isle of Skye From: haken@zamnet.zm Am desperately looking for lyrics of Isle of Skye. Please help! Many thanks in advance |
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01 Oct 98 - 09:42 AM (#40153) Subject: RE: Isle of Skye From: Barbara Do you mean the Skye Boat Song? If you put the word Skye in the box upper right and click on the search button, you will get a list of 18 songs about the Isle of Skye. See if the one you want is there. If not, give us a few more words or lines. Blessings, Barbara |
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01 Oct 98 - 09:59 AM (#40156) Subject: RE: Isle of Skye From: Rosie Could not find it through 'search'. It is not the 'Sky Boat Song' I'm after. The title of the song is 'Isle of Skye'. I have a recording of the song by The Corries. Have tried various search engines but cannot find the lyrics. |
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03 Oct 98 - 10:17 AM (#40270) Subject: RE: Isle of Skye From: skw@ I think I've got them at home. I'll bring them in on Monday, unless someone beats me to it. - Susanne |
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05 Oct 98 - 06:01 AM (#40362) Subject: Lyr Add: ISLE OF SKYE From: skw@ ISLE OF SKYE There are twa bonnie maidens, and three bonnie maidens, Come owre the Minch, come owre the main, With the wind for their way and the corry for their hame. They are dearly welcome back to Skye once again. CHORUS: Come along, come along wi' your boatie and your song, My ain bonnie maids, my twa bonnie maids, For the night it is dark, the Redcoat is gone, And ye are dearly welcome back to Skye once again. There is Flora, my honey, sae dear, sae bonnie, And ane, that's sae tall, sae handsome and all. Put the one for my king and the other for my queen. They are dearly welcome back to Skye once again. CHORUS: Come along... My ain... For the Lady Macoulain, she dwelleth all her lane, And ye.... Her arm it is long and her petticoat is strong, My ain... The sea moullit's nest I will watch o'er the main And ye.... CHORUS: Come along... My ain... And saft shall ye rest where the heather grows best, And ye.... There's a wind in the tree, a ship on the sea, My ain... Your cradle I'll rock on the lea of the rock, And ye.... CHORUS: Come along... My ain... Mair sound shall ye sleep as she sail o'er the deep, And ye....^^ Written by James Hogg (1770-1835), recorded by The Corries on 'A Little of What You Fancy' in 1973 [?:] This Jacobite song narrates the adventures of Prince Charles Edward Stewart [sic!] and Flora MacDonald during the wanderings of the Prince in Skye. (Songs of Scotland I, p 40) [1972:] [Charles's] flight was a desperate business; he was an embarrassment to the chiefs into whose lands he came; only reluctantly did Flora Macdonald, whose father was with the government forces, convey him to Skye [...]. (Mackie, History of Scotland 275) [1975:] Charles [...] took leave of his preserver. Flora [...] says nothing of any emotional scene on this occasion - in striking contrast to the accounts given by several of the Prince's male companions on the occasion of their parting with him: we remember, for example, O'Sullivan's loud weeping and long embrace. Flora was a hard-headed and highly competent young woman who managed her part of the affair very successfully. [She] was arrested on her way back to her home in Armadale[,] taken to London and imprisoned in the Tower, but was released under the Act of Indemnity of 1747. She married Allan Macdonald in 1750, and in 1774 they emigrated to North Carolina. But they returned to Skye in 1779, disapproving of the revolt of the American colonies. (David Daiches, Charles Edward Stuart 227) [1986:] The Twa Bonnie Maidens were Flora McDonald and Bonnie Prince Charlie, who was disguised as her serving woman 'Betty' in order to escape the Redcoats, i.e. soldiers. (Conway, 100 Songs 86) [1991:] Flora MacDonald was a native of South Uist, the daughter of a leading member of the MacDonald clan. June of 1746 found her at her brother's farm, in charge of the cattle at their summer upland grazing. She was just 24 years old. Her involvement came through her cousin, Neil MacEachern MacDonald, who was with the fugitive, and her stepfather, Hugh MacDonald - who although he was a captain on the government side, had no desire to see the Stuart prince caught. On the night of the 20th of June, Neil came to Flora with a proposal; that she take the prince, disguised as her maidservant, to the island of Skye. Despite the risks, Flora agreed. On the 28th, with Neil, four oarsmen, and Charles Edward Stuart disguised in petticoats as 'Betty Burke', they set out in an open boat from Rossinish on the island of Benbecula to cross the dangerous waters of the Little Minch. As all the world knows, they made it, and the romantic legend of Over The Sea To Skye was born. Flora's reward for all her courage was a lock of hair from the royal head and a promise that she would be rewarded properly when the Stuarts were once again on the British throne - and with that glib assurance she and her prince parted company. Charles Edward Stuart finally landed on the safe soil of France on the 20th of September that same year - and proceeded to reward those who had risked life and limb for him by spending the rest of his days within easy reach of the brandy bottle. But for Flora it was not so easy; word of the deed got out, and she was arrested. If she had been just another grim highlander, doubtless she would have been given no mercy by the Hanoverian courts, but her youth and beauty catapulted her to instant celebrity. The legends around her grew. King George's son, Frederick, Prince of Wales, is said to have visited her - and to have been told that, had he been in distress like Prince Charles, she would have done the same for him. True or not, the story is indicative of the grip she had on the popular imagination - the government did not dare try her case; when the amnesty came for most of the Jacobites in 1747, Flora was included. She went home to Scotland and began rebuilding her life. (Brian McNeill on his own song 'Strong Women Rule Us All', Songbook 'The Back o' the North Wind' 5) 'Her arm it is long and her petticoat strong' is, I suppose, a slip of the tongue, and should be the other way round. - Susanne |
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05 Oct 98 - 02:09 PM (#40379) Subject: RE: Isle of Skye From: Bruce O. The song is entitled "Prince Charles and Flora McDondald's Welcome to Sky" in James Hogg's 'Jacobite Relics of Scotland', I #88, 1819. Hogg said it was taken down 'verbatim from the mouth of Mrs. Betty Cameron from Lochaber,...'. The tune given is called "The Isle of Sky" in several Scots tune collections, but it isn't the oldest of that title. In O'Neill's 'Music of Ireland' the tune is called "George Brabazon [II]" and attributed to O'Carolan, but that title and attribution is not found elsewhere. |
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05 Oct 98 - 02:14 PM (#40380) Subject: RE: Isle of Skye From: Bruce O. Sorry, that should have been vol. II of Jacobite Relics, 1821, above. |
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05 Oct 98 - 05:37 PM (#40416) Subject: RE: Isle of Skye From: belter I have a recording of Isle of Skye under the title Twa Bonny Maids by a dou called The Flash Girls. Included in their liner notes it says as near as I can remember, Flora MacDonald disguised bonny Prince Charlie as a maid and smogled him in a small row boat across the sea to the island of skye. From there he excaped to France were he died drunk, while Flora MacDonald was captured and taken to London were her beauty and wit made her a great social success, and she was invited to all the write parties. There's a lesson in there, some were. This is nothing that hasn't been said alreay, but I like the way they make it sound. |
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05 Oct 98 - 08:29 PM (#40439) Subject: RE: Isle of Skye From: Barry Finn This was also covered by Archie Fisher "The Man With A Rhyme" on Folk Legacy 1976, he also calls it "Twa Bonnie Maidens". Hadn't heard that fuller version before, Thanks Susanne. Barry |
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06 Oct 98 - 02:17 AM (#40488) Subject: RE: Isle of Skye From: Joe Offer The tune sounds awfully familiar - has it been used for other songs? Click here to see the version of the song in the database. The version Susanne has many more verses, and an interesting difference in the chorus. -Joe Offer- |
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12 Nov 99 - 04:39 PM (#135193) Subject: Lyr/Tune Add: PRINCE CHARLES' AND FLORA... From: Bruce O. The original for comparison. PRINCE CHARLES' AND FLORA MACDONALD'S WELCOME TO SKY.
Tere are two ponny maytens,
Tere is Flora, my honey,
Her arm it is strang,
Tere's a wind on te tree, ^^ [Hogg notes that the song was taken verbatim from the mouth of Mrs Betty Cameron from Lochaber. "She said it was from the Gaelic; but if it is, I think it is likely to have been translated by herself" (with, I suspect with considerable help from Hogg, himself.)]
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12 Nov 99 - 06:17 PM (#135239) Subject: RE: Isle of Skye From: kendall Speed bonnie boat like a bird on the wing Onward the sailors cry Carry the twit who thought he'd be king Over the sea to Skye. Many the lad fought on that day trying to bring you back You left the fight fast to save your own ass Now Flora is on the rack etc
You went back to France you sing and you dance |
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12 Nov 99 - 06:55 PM (#135263) Subject: RE: Isle of Skye From: Bruce O. I should have said original 'Twa Bonny Maidens" above. I can't see that Hogg's song has any relation to the Skye Boat Song. |
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13 Nov 99 - 01:36 AM (#135383) Subject: RE: Isle of Skye From: Jeri Bruce O, are you saying that the first attribution of the tune to Carolan was in O'Neill's? I have "The Complete Works of O'Carolan," pub. by Ossian, that has it attributed to him, but it's very possible they got it from O'Neill's. |
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13 Nov 99 - 01:21 PM (#135511) Subject: RE: Isle of Skye From: Bruce O. In reprinting the 213 tunes from Donal O'Sullivan's 'Carolan', that anonymous Ossian issue looks better, because they left off those messy looking asterisks that O'Sullivan used to denote 31 tunes that he concluded were mistakenly attributed to Carolan. I stand by my original statement. |
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13 Nov 99 - 02:29 PM (#135559) Subject: RE: Isle of Skye From: Jeri Thanks for the info, Bruce. |
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19 Jun 04 - 09:10 AM (#1210383) Subject: RE: Isle of Skye From: GUEST,Rosa Does anybody have the notes to the song that goes ''Speed bonnie boat like a bird on the wing''? I've looked everywhere and the other ones on this page are too confusing to understand. Thank-you. Rosa O. |
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19 Jun 04 - 09:22 AM (#1210386) Subject: RE: Isle of Skye From: Metchosin Gueat Rosa, Skye Boat Song |
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19 Jun 04 - 09:52 AM (#1210399) Subject: RE: Isle of Skye From: The Borchester Echo I prefer the parody. Also Brian McNeill's 'No Gods and Precious Few Heroes': "And tell me will we never hear the end of puir bluidy Chairlie at Culloden yet again? Though he ran like a rabbit doun the glen leaving better folk than him to be butchered." or 'Strong Women Rule Us All': "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 Chairlie Stewart's future already plain to see? Did you know he'd be a waster all his days?" |
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19 Jun 04 - 09:55 AM (#1210403) Subject: RE: Isle of Skye From: The Borchester Echo Oops, sorry Kendall. I see you posted the parody 5 years ago! |
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19 Jun 04 - 05:27 PM (#1210592) Subject: RE: Isle of Skye From: Jim McLean I produced, arranged and recorded an LP called Bonnie Prince Charlie, sung by Alastair McDonald in 1972 and one of the tracks was 'Twa Bonnie Maidens'. |
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19 May 11 - 03:40 PM (#3157145) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Isle of Skye From: Taconicus The Corries version of The Isle of Skye uses the tune that many Celtic Harp players call Planxty George Brabazon, when they play it. |