Section of English Grammar

Skye Boat Song (Outlander's series) (Raya Yarbrough)

Skye Boat Song (Outlander's series)
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One of Scotland's most beautiful ballads as it appears in the opening theme of the TV series Outlander. The music is composed by Bear McCreary, in the voice of Raya Yarbrough. The title song is an adaption of Robert Louis Stevenson's poem "Sing me a Song of a Lad that is Gone", set to the tune of the Scottish folk song "The Skye Boat Song" (click the link to hear the original song and learn about it).

Outlander is a British-American television drama series based on the Outlander series of novels by Diana Gabaldon, mystery and romance. See trailer here.

 

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Instructions

Order the words to match the lyrics of the song.

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gone / a song / that is / Sing me / lass / of a
 
Say, / that lass / I? / be / could
 
Merry of soul / she sailed / on a day
 
the sea / to Skye / Over
 
Billow / islands / and / breeze / and seas
 
Mountains / of rain / and sun
 
fair / good / all / that was / all / that was
 
that was / All / is gone / me
 
gone / that is / of a / a song / Sing me / lass
 
that lass / be / could / I? / Say,
 
Merry / she sailed / on a day / of soul
 
the sea / to Skye / Over
 
Total number of items: 12
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