The Loch Tay Boat Song

Asonance

             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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