Beschreibung

In its original version, this beautiful Scottish air tells of the failed Jacobite uprising in 1746 and Bonnie Prince Charlie's subsequent escape into exile on the Isle of Skye. The well-known Scottish author Robert Lewis Stevenson wrote an alternative text just a few years after its first publication in the 1870s, in 1885.

From the original chorus: Speed bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing. Onward! The sailors cry. Carry the lad that is born to be king, over the sea to Skye.

... became the more familiar refrain: Sing me a song of a lad that is gone, say, could that lad be I? Merry of soul he sailed on a day over the sea to Skye.

Stevenson's version became the theme song of the TV series Outlander in 2014, although "lad" was changed to "lass" in the spirit of the story.

By alternating between spherical sounds of lying on the waves of the sea and a military rhythm reminiscent of war, the arrangement convinces with an almost onomatopoeic transposition of the original story. Skye Boat Song erzählt.

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