Misc Traditional – Loch Tay Boat Song (Guitar)

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This is a slightly changed and adjusted version of what can be found here: http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/c/corries/loch_tay_boat_song_crd.htm "Nighean ruach" means "red haired lass", it's pronounced something like 'nee-an roo-a'. Killen and Aberfeldy are two villages on both sides of the loch, where in between the ferry man rows his boat. I have not yet figured out, what colour of hair "lint" could mean. up), but that doesn't fit my voice. to C).

          G               Bm
When I've done my work of day 

      C      D     G     Em
And I row my boat away

         C      D       G    Em
Doon the waters o' Loch Tay

       Am               D       D7
As the evening light is fadin'

      G             Bm
And I look upon Ben Lawers

          C     D     G      Em
Where the after glory glows

      C        D          G     Em
And I think on two bright eyes 

        Am      D       G
And the melting mouth below

         C         D       G      Em
She's my beauteous nighean ruach

         C       D      G     Em
She's my joy and sorrow too

      C          D     G     Em
And although she is untrue

          Am             D         D7
Ah, but I cannot live without her

       G                 Bm
For my heart's a boat in tow

        C        D        Em
And I'd give the world to know

        C        D      G    Em
Why she means to let me go

     Am      D     G
As I sing horee, horo

        G                  Bm
Nighean ruach, your lovely hair 

         C       D     G     Em
Has more glamour I declare

     C       D       G    Em
Than all the tresses rare

        Am          D       D7
From Killen to Aberfeldy

        G                      Bm
Be they lint, white, brown, or gold

        C       D        G      Em
Be they blacker than the sloe

          C       D        G     Em
They have no more worth to me 

       Am     D        G
Than a meltin flake o' snow

        C        D        G       Em
And her eyes are like the gleam

       C        D      G       Em
O' the sunlight on the stream

        C         D       G      Em
And the songs the faeries sing

          Am                 D      D7
Seem like songs she sings at milkin'

       G                Bm
But my heart is full of woe

         C         D       Em
For last night she bade me go

        C        D     G     Em
And the tears begin to flow

     Am      D     G
As I sing horee, horo

         C         D       G      Em
She's my beauteous nighean ruach

         C       D      G     Em
She's my joy and sorrow too

      C          D     G     Em
And although she is untrue

          Am             D         D7
Ah, but I cannot live without her

       G                 Bm
For my heart's a boat in tow

        C        D        Em
And I'd give the world to know

        C        D      G    Em
Why she means to let me go

     Am      D     G
As I sing horee, horo