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#Tait rhymes with hat#Good times#Outlander#Season 7#Opening Credits#The Skye Boat Song#Sinéad O’Connor#Documentary#Nothing Compares#Showtime#2022#Rolling Stone#28 September 2022#Twitter#Youtube#Instagram story#My screenrecording
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Excited for the Outlander Season 6 Rewatch!
To get ready I made a playlist. It's heavy on the Skye Boat Song because I included every version, but hey, it's Outlander, what did you expect? : )
The playlist includes highlights of the soundtrack, a couple associated songs, and roughly follows the order of the series. Time is 1 hr 36.
Really, this soundtrack is a masterpiece. I have been particularly enjoying the instrumentation and use of rhythm. This last turned what could have been generic "period" pieces into dynamic enjoyable music in their own right.
I hope you enjoy! 🎶🎶
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New Opening Song: "Outlander: Season Seven" (2023)
New Opening Song: “Outlander: Season Seven” (2023)
Famed singer Sinead O’Connor has been revealed as the singer of the opening titles sequence for the seventh season of “Outlander” with Starz releasing the credits sequence online.
O’Connor delivers her rendition of The Skye Boat Song for the series credits which as usual are updated each season to reflect the story’s current location and…
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Griogair Labhruidh - The Skye Boat Song (Outlander Theme Song/Gaelic Version)
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In a land of myth, and a time of magic, the destiny of a great kingdom rests on the shoulders of a young boy. His name... Merlin.
#bbc merlin#merlin#merlin emrys#arthur pendragon#bbc gwen#morgana pendragon#bbc morgana#morgana le fay#colin morgan#bradley james#angel coulby#katie mcgrath#bbc lancelot#santiago cabrera#bbc mordred#alexander vlahos#skye boat song#outlander#fanvidfeed#viddingisart#essentially this is my version of the merlin opening credits using the outlander s1 theme song#hope you enjoy <3#Youtube
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When I print off sheet music for "Skye Boat Song" just because the 2nd Doctor plays it for Jamie on recorder. I'm gonna play it on clarinet.
Also the song "Skye Boat Song" is about the Battle of Culloden which is what Jamie and the others are fighting in in his first episode "The Highlanders".
#classic doctor who#twojamie#jamie and the 2nd doctor#jamie mccrimmon#2nd doctor#queer#skye boat song#doctor who#why do I randomly shit post at night#lmao
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On March 5th 1790, Flora MacDonald, the Jacobite heroine, died.
Flora is still one of the most romanticise figures in Scottish history, much has been written about her helping Charles Edward Stuart after his escape from Culloden when he was the most hunted man in Scotland.
Flora Macdonald was born at Milton, on South Uist, where you can still see the ruins of her childhood home. She grew up in the household of the chief of the Macdonalds of Clanranald, who firmly supported the Jacobite cause. When Bonnie Prince Charlie escaped following the Battle of Culloden in 1746 he went into hiding, depending on supporters to shelter him and hide him from his Hanoverian pursuers led by the Duke of Cumberland. At length, he arrived on the island of Benbecula, where it was decided that he should move on to Skye.
The island was under travel restrictions, and the prince could not take the risk of being spotted. A Jacobite supporter and distant kinsman named Captain Conn O'Neill asked Flora to help Charles escape. Macdonald herself did not support the Jacobite cause, but she was moved by the plight of the Jacobites after the Battle of Culloden, and at length she agreed. She later said that she acted from charity, and would have helped the Duke of Cumberland had she found him in a similar situation.
She obtained permission from Hugh Macdonald, commander of the local militia and her stepfather, to leave Benbecula. She was allowed to take two servants, and a crew of six sailors. Bonnie Prince Charlie was dressed as an Irish spinning maid named Betty Burke, and in that guise he sailed with Flora to Skye on 27 June 1746.
Unlike the scene made famous in the popular ‘Skye Boat Song’, the Prince did not leave baffled foes standing on the shore, and managed to make the crossing unchallenged. From Skye, he made his way at length to Moidart, where he boarded a French ship and escaped to refuge in Europe.
When Flora Macdonald’s role in the escape came to light she was arrested and imprisoned in the Tower of London. Though she had committed treason by helping Bonnie Prince Charlie, the public, even staunch Hanoverians, regarded her as a heroic figure, primarily because she was a woman, I have little doubt if it had been a man that helped the Prince in a similar way, he would have been executed.
She was released from the Tower in 1747. She married Allan Macdonald of Kingsburgh in 1750 and settled at Flodigarry on Skye, where she raised a family. In 1774 the couple and their 5 children emigrated to North Carolina. Her husband Alexander joined a regiment of Royal Highland Emigrants in the American War of Independence, where he was captured. He was released in an exchange of prisoners and took up a command in Nova Scotia.
In 1779 Macdonald returned to Scotland, braving an attack by privateers on the way, and settled on Skye where her husband joined her after the war was over. She died in at Kingsburgh in 1790 and was buried in the graveyard beside the 16th-century church at Kilmuir. Tradition says that she was buried in a shroud made from a bed-sheet used by Bonnie Prince Charlie.
Given her popularity as a Jacobite heroine, it is not surprising that a large memorial was erected by her grave, which became a popular destination for tourists. The original monument to Macdonald was destroyed in a gale in 1871. It was replaced by a new memorial designed by Alexander Ross in 1880. Ross’s design includes a 28 foot high Celtic Cross of granite, rising above a slender rectangular chest tomb, also of granite. A marble plaque was added in 1922.
The epitaph reads, 'Her name will be mentioned in history and if courage and fidelity be virtues, mentioned with honour’. It was written by Dr Samuel Johnson of dictionary fame, who met her during his famous tour of the Hebrides with James Boswell.
In 1884, just 4 years after the monument was erected, the Skye Boat Song was published, and the popular ballad ensured that Macdonald’s fame would not fade.
Here is a less well known song about not just Flora by Brian McNeill, you can tell through the song that Brian has not got a high opinion of the Prince, but holds Flora in the highest esteem as a strong woman.
Pics are of Flora’s grave and the statue of the lady herself at Inverness Castle that I took in 2014.
There’s a moment of your story
That has always haunted me
When you set out in yon open boat
To help the poor man flee
Was Charlie Stuart’s future
Already plain to see
Did you know he’d be a waster on his days
If you did, I’d give the world to find
A single tear you cried
From the Cuillins tae the Carolinas
You showed us one and all
The courage you could call
From the tears that would not fall
From your eyes
And after thirty years
After all that you’d been through
us been marriede haven’ been a
Just a memory to rue
As you watched your husband putting on
His coat of scarlet hue
To go and fight for German Geordie’s crown
But you never tried to hide behind
The dreams of days gone by
From the Cuillins tae the Carolinas
You showed us one and all
The courage you could call
From the tears that would not fall
From your eyes
And there’s times I think I see you
When I find that kind of face
When a woman’s independence
Has kept a woman’s grace
Where confidence and pride
Refuse to know their place
Or hide behind the easy tricks of beauty
For to me your lights are like the chimes
Across the stormy skies
From the Cuillins tae the Carolinas
You showed us one and all
The courage you could call
From the tears that would not fall
From your eyes
From the Cuillins tae the Carolinas
Strong women rule us all
With the courage that they call
When the tears refuse to fall
From their eyes.
#scotland#scottish#hebridean#bonnie prince charlie#jacobites#history#over the sea to skye#skye boat song#daring escape#heroism#heroine#brave woman#strong woman
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nothing will ever beat that one song your grandparents sang to you as a toddler
#is this just a me thing#anyway for me it's always gonna be the skye boat song#and blow the wind southerly#and wild mountain thyme <3#(my grandma was scottish in case you couldn't guess)#she also sang me a lot of american folk songs and a LOT of old musical songs xD#but somehow three wheels on my wagon just isn't the same#HIGGITY HAGGETY HOGGITY HIGH#WE'RE PIONEERS AND WE NEVER SAY DIE#*gets killed by native americans*#or something#dee rambles
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i have to play my recorder today and long story short i ended up wearing my vintage 60s coat out
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Trying out Summer Appropriate Second Doctor vibes.
#of course for skme reason today of all days i can't hold a note for the life of me. so no video of playing skye boat song#but i tried!#my blue lace binder peeks out on side view it fucken rocks
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Interesting choice with the Skye Boat Song. I enjoy the man's voice and the placement. Good transition to Fraser's Ridge
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Just getting around to watching season 7 of Outlander, and OH MY WORD WHO ALLOWED A GHOST TO SING THE MAIN TITLE.
It's not even a cool ghost.
I didn't like the season 6 theme either, with the dead-sounding man, but THIS IS SO MUCH WORSE.
It's INFINITELY WORSE.
whyyyy
#Outlander#Outlander season 7#droughtlander#I have never liked that song less and I like the Skye Boat Song#gah
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#queen elizabeth funeral#skye boat song#scotland#bonnie prince charlie#outlander starz#battle of culloden#1746#19th century scottish song#outlander#jacobites
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i spent too long getting the recordings right, but this isn't one i made myself look too closely at either, haven't even heard of it until a week or two ago
next up is either Jupiter from The Planets or Le Cygne (The Swan) from The Carnival of Animals
don't hold your breath though, who knows how long that will be
#skye boat song#i played something and i didn't explode my computer#i really need to work on actually keeping my bow lined up though#after this long still slipping strings#then again not used to the extra string either#viola#viola recording#it sounds like music right?#the only time i've played worse is when i was first learning#rc makes screeching noises#who's bright idea was it to let me have a noise maker#← me at myself
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learning today that one of my colleagues believes in past lives and thinks she was a scottish/irish princess (with red hair ofc) and that this is why she has a deep connection to the sea
#she also walked down the aisle to the outlander version of the skye boat song#she is not scottish or irish i must add
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