The Skye Boat Song (Power Bender Tuning)

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How to read this tab — notation key

+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

Full reference and posting tips in the tab guide.

Tab

The Skye Boat Song (Power Bender Tuning)



 5   -5   5  -6   -6  -6  7   -7  7  -8

Speed bonnie boat like a bird on the wing

-7   7  -7  -5  -5   5

Onward the sailors cry 

 5 -5  5  -6  -6      7  -7  7  -8

Carry the lad that`s born to be king

-7 7 -7  -5  -5   5

Over the sea to Skye



CHORUS

 -7  -5   -7   -7    7   -5    7    7

Loud the winds howl,loud the waves roar

-6  -5   -6    -6   -6  -5  -7  -6   -7  -7

Thunder clouds rend the air.Baffled our foes 

 7   -5   7    7    -6  -5  -6   -6  -6  -5

stand by the shore. Follow they will not dare



VERSE 2

Tho` the waves leap soft shall ye sleep

Ocean`s a royal bed

Rock`d in the deep. Flora will keep

Watch by your weary head

CHORUS

VERSE 3

Many`s the lad fought on that day

Well the claymore could wield

When the night came, silently lay

Dead on Culloden`s Field

CHORUS

VERSE4

Burn`d are our homes, exile and death

Scatter the loyal men

Yet `ere the sword cool in the sheath,

Charlie will come again

CHORUS

Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound