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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