Loch Tay Boat Song

G Bm C D G When I've done the work of day and I row my boat away Em C D G Em Am D Down the waters of Loch Tay when the evening light is fallin' D7 G Bm C D G Then I look towards Ben Lawers where the afterglories glow Em C D G Em Am D G And I dream on two bright eyes with a merry mouth below C D G SheUs my beauteous nighean ruach nighean ruach = red-haired lass Em C D G She's my joy and sorrow too Em C D G Though I own she is not true Em Am D Ah, but I cannot live without her D7 G Bm For my heart's a boat in tow Em C D Bm And I'd give the world to know Em C D G If she means to let me go Em Am D G As she sings horee horo G Bm C D G Nighean ruach, your lovely hair has more beauty I declare Em C D G Em Am D Than all the tresses fair from Killen to Aberfeldy D7 G Bm C D G Be they lint, white, gold or brown, be they blacker than the sloe Em C D G Em Am D G They mean not as much to me as a meltin' flake of snow C D G And her dance is like the gleam Em C D G Of the sunlight on the stream Em C D G And the songs the wee folk sing Em Am D Ah, they're the songs she sings at milkin' D7 G Bm But my heart is full of woe Em C D Bm For last night she bade me go Em C D G And the tears begin to flow Em Am D G As I sing horee horo *To play it in C (for the Corries version) transpose -7