SKYE BOAT SONG, THE
Created on 01/12/2017Latest update on 16/04/2024
Artist: Tom Bryce
Author: Sir Harold Boulton/trad.
Label: Berliner Gramophone
Year: 1899
First published in Songs Of The North (Boulton & MacLeod - 1884). The story of Bonnie Prince Charlie (Stuart) escaping to the Isle of Skye disguised as a chamber maid after his defeat at the Battle of Culloden (1746).
Covers:
- 1904:
- 1927:
- 1957:
- 1959:
- 1959:
- 1960:
- 1965:
Tom Jones [on debut album]
- 1968:
Roger Whittaker [and in '86 whistled version with Des O'Connor; top 10 UK]
- 1970:
- 1970:
- 1976:
- 1976:
Rod Stewart [with The Atlantic Crossing Drums & Pipe Band on a single and on deluxe edition Atlantic Crossing lp in '09]
- 1978:
Camaleonti [as Canto d'Amore Straniero]
- 1983:
- 1987:
- 1988:
Tori Amos [under earlier stage name Y Kant Tori Read]
- 1990:
James Galway & The Chieftains [on album Over The Sea To Skye - The Celtic Connection]
- 1993:
- 2006:
- 2014:
Raya Yarbrough [theme of Outlander TV series]
- 2017:
- 2019:
