The Skye Boat Song
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title:
The Skye Boat Song
text:
"The Skye Boat Song" is a late 19th-century Scottish song adaptation of a Gaelic song composed c.1782 by William Ross, entitled Cuachag nan Craobh. In the original song, the composer laments to a cuckoo that his unrequited love, Lady Marion Ross, is rejecting him. The 19th century English lyrics instead evoked the journey of Prince Charles Edward Stuart from Benbecula to the Isle of Skye as he evaded capture by government soldiers after his defeat at the Battle of Culloden in 1746. Sir Harold Bo
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encyclopedia
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19th-century Scottish song
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skye_Boat_Song
date created:
2004-09-16T09:31:09Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T03:10:23Z
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