abstract:"The Skye Boat Song" is a Scottish folk song, which can be played as a waltz, recalling the escape of Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) from Uist to the Isle of Skye after his defeat at the Battle of Culloden in 1746.
The flight of the "lad that's born to be king, " as the wistful "Skye BoatSong" has it, became the stuff of brooding legend, novels and of shortbread-biscuit tins.