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Harold Boulton

Sir Harold Edwin Boulton, 2nd Baronet, CVO, CBE, JP (7 August 1859 – 1 June 1935) was an English songwriter, and philanthropist, most famously author of the lyrics to the "Skye Boat Song".

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"Speed, bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing, ‘Onward,’ the sailors cry. Carry the lad that’s born to be king Over the sea to Skye."

- Harold Boulton

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"Burned are our homes, exile and death, Scattered the loyal men. Yet ere the sword cool in the sheath, Charlie will come again."

- Harold Boulton

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"When Adam and Eve were dispossessed Of the garden hard by Heaven, They planted another one down in the west, ’Twas Devon, glorious Devon!"

- Harold Boulton

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