Tour Scotland Video Skye Boat Song HM Royal Marines Band Mini Military Tattoo City Square Dundee Scotland

Tour Scotland video of the Royal Marines Band playing the music for the Skye Boat song in the City Square at the mini Military tattoo on ancestry visit to Dundee, Scotland. Portsmouth and Plymouth Royal Marines from the Edinburgh Military Tattoo playing at the mini tattoo in Dundee.

Speed, bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing,
Onward! the sailors cry;
Carry the lad that's born to be King
Over the sea to Skye.

Loud the winds howl, loud the waves roar,
Thunderclouds rend the air;
Baffled, our foes stand by the shore,
Follow they will not dare.

Though the waves leap, so soft shall ye sleep,
Ocean's a royal bed.
Rocked in the deep, Flora will keep
Watch by your weary head.

Many's the lad fought on that day,
Well the Claymore could wield,
When the night came, silently lay
Dead in Culloden's field.

Burned are their homes, exile and death
Scatter the loyal men;
Yet ere the sword cool in the sheath
Charlie will come again.

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