Chords for Alastair McDonald - Over the Sea (Skye Boat Song)

It is a black, wild night, _ with the wind howling down from the North Minch, _ whipping the seas
separating sky from the mainland [D#] into a cauldron of angry [A]
waves.
_ _ [C#] An occasional flash of lightning reveals a tiny rowing boat, bobbing like a [N]
cork, sometimes
lost in the deep troughs of black-green water, _ but always _ reappearing on the crest of a gigantic
white-feathered whale.
_ _ _ In this tiny craft, _ _ struggling against the elements and fleeing from the Duke of Cumberland
and Culloden, _ is Prince Charles Edward Stuart.
_ _ [Em] _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F#m] _ Speed, [Em] _
_ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
[G] _ _ [Em] bonnie boat, [Am] like a bird [D] on the wing, [G] _ _ onward the [C] _ _
[D] sailors cry. _ _ _
_ [G] _ Carry [Em] the lad that's [Am] born to be king [G] _ over [C] the sea [D] to sky. _ _
_ _ [Em] Loud the winds howl, [Am] loud the waves roar, _ [Em] _ thunderclaps [C] rend [Em] the air. _
_ _ _ _ Baffled our foes [Am] stand by the shore, _ [Em] follow [C] they will [Em] not dare. _
_ _ _ [G] Speed, [Em] bonnie boat, [Am] like a bird on the wing, [G] _ _
onward the [C] _ sailors [D] cry.
_ _ _ _ [G] _
Carry [Em] the lad that's [Am] born to be [D] king [G] _
over the [C] sea to [D]
sky.
_ _ _ _ [Em]
Though the waves leap, _ [Am]
soft shall ye sleep, [Em] _
ocean's [C] a royal _ [Em] _
bed. _ _ _
Rocked in the deep, [Am] _
flora will keep, [Em]
watch by [C] your _ [Em] weary _ head. _ _
Speed, bonnie boat, [Am] like a bird on [D] the wing, _
[G] _ onward [C] the sailors [D] cry. _ _ _ _
[G] Carry [Em] the lad [Am] that's born to be [D] king [G] _ over [C] the sea [G] to sky.
[D] _ _ _ _
[Em] _ Many's the _ [Am] lad fought on [C] that day, [Em] well the [C] _ claymore [Em] could wheel. _ _ _ _
When the night came, [Am] _ silently lay, _
[Em] dead [C] on _ [Em] Culloden's field. _ _ _ _
[G] _ Speed, [Em] bonnie boat, like a [Am] bird on the [D] wing, [G] _ onward [C] the _ [D] sailors cry. _ _ _
[G] _ Carry [Em] the lad that's [Am] born to be king [G] _ over the [C] sea to [D] sky. _ _ _
_ [Em] _ Burned are our homes, [Am] _ exile and death, _
[Em] scatter [C] the loyal [Em] _ men. _ _ _
Yet, ere the sword [Am] cool in its sheath, [Em] _
Charlie [C] will come [Em] _
again. _ _ _ _
[G] Speed, [Em] bonnie boat, [Am] like a bird [D] on the wing, [G] _ onward [C] the _ [G] sailors cry.
[D] _ _ _ _
[G] _ Carry [Em] the lad [Am] that's born to be king [G] _ over [C] the sea [D] to sky. _ _ _
[G] _ Over the [C] sea to [G] sky. _ _ _
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[Em] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [F#m] _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _
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