Loch Tay Boat Song Lyrics - Passion World - Kurt Elling

Loch Tay Boat Song 

Traditional, Composed by Annie C. MacLeod 

Lyric by Sir Harold Boulton 

When I've done my work of day / And I row my boat away 

Down the waters o' Loch Tay / As the evening light is fading 

And I look upon Ben Lawers / Where the after-glory glows 

And I think on two bright eyes / And the merry mouth below 

She's my beauteous nighean ruadh* / She's my joy and sorrow too 

And although she is untrue / Well, I cannot live without her 

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For my heart's a boat in tow / And I'd give the world to know 

Why she means to let me go / As I sing horee horo 

Nighean ruadh*, your lovely hair / Has more glamour I declare 

Than all the tresses rare / 'tween Killin and Aberfeldy 

Be they lint white, brown or gold / Be they blacker than the sloe 

They are worth no more to me / Than the melting flake of snow 

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Her eyes are like the gleam / O' the sunlight on the stream 

And the songs the fairies sing / Seem like 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 horee, horo 

(* "Nighean ruadh" is Scottish Gaelic for "red-haired girl".)