Tommy Makem – Loch Tay Boat Song lyrics

When I've done my work of day, and I row my boat away
Down the waters of Loch Tay as the evening light is fading
And I gaze upon Ben Lawers, where the after glory glows
And I think on two bright eyes and the melting mouth below
She's my beauteous Nighean Ruadh, my joy and sorrow too
And if she prove untrue, well I cannot live without her
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 no more worth to me than the melting flake of snow.
And her eyes are like the gleam of the sunlight o'er the stream
And the songs the fairies sing are 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

And her eyes are like the gleam of the sunlight o'er the stream
And the songs the fairies sing are 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