The Loch Tay Boat Song
C Emi Ami
1. When I've done the work of day
F Dmi Emi Ami
and I rowed my boat away
F G Emi Ami
down the waters of Loch Tay
D G
when the evening light is falling
C Emi Ami
then I look toward Ben Lawers
F Dmi Emi Ami
where the after glories glow
F G Emi Ami
and I dream of two bright eyes
Dmi G C
with a merry mouth below
F Dmi Emi Ami
she's my beauteous nighean ruadh
F Dmi Emi Ami
she's my joy and sorrow too
F Dmi Emi Ami
though I own she is not true
D G
oh but I cannot live without her
C Emi Ami
for my heart's a boat in tow
F Dmi Emi Ami
and I'd give the world to know
F G Emi Ami
if she means to let me go
Dmi G C
as I sing hori horo.
2. Nighean ruadh I do declare
there's more beauty in your hair
than all the tresses fair
from Killin to Aberfeldy
be they lint-white gold or brown
be they blacker than the sloe
they mean not as much to me
as a melting flake of snow
and her dance is like the gleam
of the sunlight on the stream
and the songs that we folk sing
oh they're the songs she sings at milking
but my heart is full of woe
for last night she bade me go
and the tears begin to flow
as I sing hori horo.
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