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Annotation:Skye Boat Song (The)
SKYE BOAT SONG, THE. Scottish, Air (6/8 time). G Major.
Annie macleod biography skye
Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB. Words to the tune were written by Sir Harold Boulton to an air collected by Miss Annie MacLeod (Lady Wilson) in the 1870's. It seems that Miss MacLeod was on a trip to the isle of Skye and was being rowed over Loch Coruisk (Coire Uisg, the 'Cauldron of Waters') when the rowers broke out into the Gaelic rowing song "Cuchag nan Craobh" (The Cuckoo in the Grove).
A talented composer and singer, MacLeod remembered fragments of the song and fashioned them into an air which she set down in notation with the intentions of using it later in a book she was to co-author with Boulton. Sir Harold joined Miss MacLeod at Roshven House, Invernesshire, soon after to work on their book, by which time the whole group at the residence was humming the "scrap of chanty" collected by her, and he too soon began to work the air around in his imagination.
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