The Loch Tay Boat Song

[INTRO:] G    Bm  C  G  C  G    D  G

[VERSE 1:]
                          Bm
When I've done my work of day
      C            G
And I row my boat away
         C              G
Down the waters of Loch Tay
       D                D7
As the evening light is fading
      G             Bm
And I gaze upon Ben Lawers
          C           G
Where the after glory glows
      C                   G
And I think on two bright eyes
                D       G
And the melting mouth below


[VERSE 2:]
         C                 G
She's my beauteous nighean ruach
   C              G
My joy and sorrow too
    C              G
And if she prove untrue
        D
Well, I cannot live without her
       G                 Bm
For my heart's a boat in tow
        C                 G
And I'd give the world to know
        C               G
Why she means to let me go
            D      G
As I sing hilee, hilo


[INSTRUMENTAL:] G  Bm  C  G  C  G    D  G


[VERSE 3:]
                           Bm
Nighean ruach, your lovely hair
         C            G
Has more glamour, I declare
     C               G
Than all the tresses rare
       D              D7
'Tween Killen and Aberfeldy
        G                     Bm
Be they lint, white, brown or gold
        C                G
Be they blacker than the sloe
         C                G
They are no more worth to me
               D        G
Than a melting flake of snow


[VERSE 4:]
        C                 G
And her eyes are like the gleam
         C               G
Like the sunlight on the stream
        C                 G
And the songs the faeries sing
         D
Are like songs she sings at milking
       G                Bm
But my heart is full of woe
         C                 G
For last night she bade me go
        C              G
And the tears begin to flow
            D      G
As I sing hilee, hilo


[INSTRUMENTAL:] G  Bm  C  G  C  G  D  D7  G  Bm  C  G  C  G    D  G


[VERSE 5:]
    C                 G
Her eyes are like the gleam
    C               G
The sunlight on the stream
        C                 G
And the songs the faeries sing
         D
Are like songs she sings at milking
       G                Bm
But my heart is full of woe
         C                 G
For last night she bade me go
        C              G
And the tears begin to flow
            D      G
As I sing hilee, hilo