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Archie Fisher recorded in 1976 on The Man With a Rhyme, where he wrote “Part of a longer and rather flowery song about the flight to Skye of Bonnie Prince Charlie after the Jacobite defeat at Culloden, when, disguised as an old woman, the Young Pretender and Flora MacDonald deceived the redcoat sentries. The air is also known as Planxty George Brabazon.”
Archie Fisher: Twa Bonnie Maidens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPhttX1mV4w
There were twa bonnie maidens and three bonnie maidens Come over the Minch and come over the main Wi’ the wind for their way and the corrie for their hame They are dearly welcome to Skye again Chorus: Come along, come along, wi’ yer boatie and your song To my hi, bonnie maidens, my twa bonnie maids The nicht it is dark and the redcoat is gone And you’re dearly welcome to Skye again There is Flora, my honey, so neat and so bonnie And ane that is tall and handsome withall Put one for my queen and the other for my king And they’re dearly welcome to Skye again There’s a wind in the tree and a ship on the sea To my hi bonnie maidens, my twa bonnie maids By the sea mullet’s nest I will watch o’er the main And you’re dearly welcome to Skye again