<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> The Skye Boat Song An adaptation for bagpipes played by the Clan Stewart Pipe Band </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Problems playing this file? See media help . </Td> </Tr> <P> "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 . </P> <P> The song tells how Bonnie Prince Charlie, disguised as a serving maid, escaped in a small boat after the defeat of his Jacobite rising of 1745, with the aid of Flora MacDonald . The song is a traditional expression of Jacobitism and its story has also entered Scotland as a national legend . </P>

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