The Loch Tay Boat Song Lyrics - Singles - Adria

When I've done my work of day 

And I row my boat away 

Doon the waters o' Loch Tay 

As the evening light is fading 

And I look up on Ben Law'rs 

Where the afterglory glows 

And I think on two bright eyes 

And the melting mouth below 

She's my beauteous nighean rue 

She's my joy, my sorrow too 

And although she is 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 worth no more to me 

Than the melting flake o' snow 

Her eyes are like the gleam 

O' the sunlight on the stream 

And the song the fairies sing 

Seems 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.