{"id":42041,"date":"2024-04-29T19:43:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T17:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/705c9fa4-1eb3-4749-992d-c249ab10f7cb"},"modified":"2024-04-29T20:39:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T18:39:58","slug":"the-skye-boat-song-what-are-the-lyrics-to-this-popular-scottish-folk-song","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/the-skye-boat-song-what-are-the-lyrics-to-this-popular-scottish-folk-song\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Skye Boat Song’: what are the lyrics to this popular Scottish folk song?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Published: Monday, 29 April 2024 at 17:43 PM<\/p>

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Who wrote ‘The Skye Boat Song’?<\/h2>

Sir Harold Edwin Boulton wrote the celebrated lyrics, which starts with the famous line; ‘Speed bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing’, in the 1870s after becoming interested in Scottish folk songs at Oxford University. That established, let’s take a look at the lyrics to ‘The Skye Boat Song’.<\/p>