Outlander fans call for cast member to sing opening theme tune for season 8

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Outlander fans have been left absolutely stunned after hearing one cast member singing the iconic Skye Boat Song.

The song is the opening theme tune for the hit time-travelling show and has become extremely important to fans as it changes slightly with every season.

And now fans have been left in awe as cast member Florrie May Wilkinson, who plays Fanny Pocock, beautifully recorded her own rendition.

Sharing the video to fans, Florrie penned: "Part of being a performer is adding songs to your rep for auditions. This one just had to be done It is so special. Thank you to my big bro @theo.josse.w for learning this just for me." #outlander #skyeboatsong #actress #singer #vocalist."

And many couldn't stop gushing over Florrie's voice.

The official Outlander page wrote: "Spellbinding!"

While fans said that she should be allowed to sing the next version for the last series: "Petition for you to sing s8."

Another said: "Wow!!!! That is beautiful. They should let you sing the theme song for season 8! Love it."

While one wrote: "You are a beautiful singer and proud of you. Yes like an angel. You should sing the theme for season 8."

And one commented: "Is there any doubt?! This should be the S8 theme song. No one has been able to steal the spotlight from Sam and Cait but this is as close as anyone has come. She is an amazing talent. She will be such a welcome addition to the cast."

The Skye Boat Song for season seven is performed by the late Sinead O'Connor, which was her last ever vocal recording.

Each season of Outlander, a new version of The Skye Boat Song is recorded with a different variation than before and executive producer Maril Davis really wanted to try something completely different so she contacted Sinead.

Sinead's version of The Skye Boat Song took two days to record at Grouse Lodge in Ireland. No one knew it would end up being Sinead's final recorded song.

Maril added: "I feel like her story is very similar to Claire's, they've been kind of at the forefront of things, maybe they have not been always embraced by [sic] everything they've done, and people have kind of pushed back and their ideas have maybe been 'crazy' and received a lot of backlash."

The original lyrics were written by Englishman Sir Harold Boulton in 1870 to a song collected by Scottish trad musician Anne Campbelle MacLeod.

The words tell the tale of Prince Charles Edward Stuart's journey as he fled the field of Culloden in 1746 where his Jacobite army had just been routed by government forces - another story Outlander fans will be familiar with.

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It reveals how the 'Bonnie Prince', now dressed as a serving maid, escaped from the island of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides to Skye with the help of the heroine Flora MacDonald.

And from there onto France, where he hoped to appeal to the French King for more support for his cause.

Hugely popular at the time, the lyrics were changed again when they were re-written by Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped.

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