Chords for The Skye Boat Song (Outlander): easy guitar lesson

Tempo:
123.8 bpm
Chords used:

G

F

C

Am

Bm

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The Skye Boat Song (Outlander): easy guitar lesson chords
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Hello, we're going all traditional today.
Sky Boat song is the theme to the series The Outlander,
you hear loads of times, different versions, different lyrics.
It's fairly easy, but it's got an F chord in it.
It's good for beginners because they can practice this F chord, which is a chord you should try to master.
If you can play it [D#] in a bar shape, you've got the E [E] shape, like an E chord,
put your first finger [F] across all six strings.
[C] So, the Sky Boat song is C, [G] you've got a G, [F] you've got the F,
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G
2131
F
134211111
C
3211
Am
2311
Bm
13421112
G
2131
F
134211111
C
3211
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_ _ Hello, we're going all _ traditional today.
_ The Sky Boat song is the theme to the series The Outlander,
but it's a really old song that you hear loads of times, different versions, different lyrics. _ _ _
It's fairly easy, but it's got an F chord in it.
It's good for beginners because they can practice this F chord, which is a chord you should try to master.
If you can play it [D#] in a bar shape, you've got the E [E] shape, like an E chord,
[F] then move up one [G#] fret and then put your first finger [F] across all six strings. _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] So, the Sky Boat song is C, [G] you've got a G, _ [F] you've got the F,
_ and for the chorus you've got that [Am] wonderful A minor, _ which is _ a major part of the song.
_ _ _ [C] So, we'll start off in C. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _
That's the first line. _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ [C] _ _
Repeat it. _ _ _
_ _ [G] She sailed on her day, _ [C] _ over [F] the sea [C] to Skye.
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Then, you go into that wonderful [Am] A minor chord. _
_ You've got that nice ring to it, it's the verse. _ _
Willow and breeze, [G] _ _
islands and seas, [F] _ mountains [Bm] have [A] rains. _ _
So, _ [C#] it's [Am] A minor.
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ A _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [Am] minor.
_ _ _ A minor.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ [F]
So, _ _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ [G] _ that second line is [Am] A minor. _
_ _ _ [G] G. _
_ _ _ F.
[F] _
_ _ _ _ _ _
A [Am] minor. _ _ _
Then to [G] G, _ that takes you into the second verse, which is C.
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ Then the wonderful [Am] chorus.
_ _ Willow and breeze, _ [G] _ islands and seas, _ [F] _ mountains [A] have _ [Am] rains. _ _
_ _ _ _ All that was good, [G] _ all that was fair, [D] _ [F] _
that was me _ [A] is gone.
[G] _ That's the verse.
[C] _ _ _ That's all.
_ You [B] can find the _ _ original lyrics on the internet.
_ Keep playing the same chords, there's simplified chords to it, there's other versions where they're a bit more complicated, but I think this [F#] works. _ _
So, all the best, bye. _
_ _ _ _ [N] _ _

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