"Speed, Bonny Boat, Like a Bird on the Wing..."

[psalm_onethirtyone]

I rode my bicycle today! (and I can spell 'bicycle', too! I remember I could never spell that.)

Also walked to the post office, and swung on the swing-set at the park. For some reason, in a town with about 100 people, we have a church, a town square, a post office, a playground, and two (rival) pizza parlors. Soon, apparently, we will have a florist's shop. All she can manage is why?

Had eggs again for breakfast. Will obviously be eating eggs for breakfast for the next-- until next winter. Clearly.

And to-night I fenced, not with nasty little Evil boy, but with Jonas. Jonas is rather a good fencer, and has a good sense of humour, and therefore she was quite entertained.

We also did forty-five minutes of parry four and six disengage, got bored with it, and did parry seven and eight cutover the rest of class, which was rather silly of us, but still fun.

Speed, bonny boat, like a bird on the wing
'Onward,' the sailors cry
Carry the lad who's born to be king
Over the sea to Skye

Mum used to sing that to us when we were little, and I just now remembered it.

My toe seems to be falling off.

Comments

[erinpuff]

Skye Boat Song! Makes me cry. *sniffles* We used to sing it at my hippie elementary school.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

*huggles!* I love the Skye song. You sang it at elementary? Ooooh, lucky!

[erinpuff]

We sang all sorts of spiffy songs there. Lots of folk songs. Lots of Beatles. Hippie school, yes. ^_^

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

I like your elementary school very much. Hippies rock!

[erinpuff]

I've heard it's gotten more traditional since I left. This makes me sad and I don't visit anymore. :(

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Aww! *snuggles*

[kinnosuikazura.livejournal.com]

*cuddles* SKYE BOAT SONG! *ahem, yes* I /love/ that song. To pieces. *squishes it* But then, I love like 99% of all celtic ballads. But whatever. That's one of my favourites. Do you know the rest, sweets? Here's the link, if you don't: http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=5398

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

I adore that song utterly. <3 <3 <3 ^_^ I think I know the rest. Bits of it, anyway.

Mum sung another one that ended:

Blow, blow him home to me
While my little one
While my pretty one sleeps...

I think it was called Wind of the Western Sea. Do you know it?

[kinnosuikazura.livejournal.com]

Yes! That's "Sweet and Low," a lullaby Tennyson wrote:


SWEET and low, sweet and low,
Wind of the western sea,
Low, low, breathe and blow,
Wind of the western sea!
Over the rolling waters go,
Come from the dying moon, and blow,
Blow him again to me;
While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps.

Sleep and rest, sleep and rest,
Father will come to thee soon;
Rest, rest, on mother’s breast,
Father will come to thee soon;
Father will come to his babe in the nest,
Silver sails all out of the west
Under the silver moon:
Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

You totally rock. How do you know all these things? *glomps* Wow. Had never thought to hear those words again.

[candika.livejournal.com]

Let me see if I can remember the whole thing...

Speed bonny boat,
like a bird on the wing,
'Onward'the sailors cry
Carry the lad
who's born to be king,
Over the sea to Skye.

Though the waves leap
Soft shall ye sleep,
Thunderclouds rend the air.
Baffled our foes
stand on the shore,
Follow they will not dare.

It's about the escape of the infant Charles 2. My Mother used to sing it to me, too, much to my Dad's disgruntlement. He was a staunch Cromwell fan!

*Pip warbles happily*

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

That's all of it! Except the first two lines of the second verse. Mum sang different ones. About lightning and wind.

O_o Cromwell? Oh dear.

[tairaworld.livejournal.com]

Your toe is falling off?

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Just the toenail, actually.