Loch Tay Boat Song Chords
Loch Tay Boat Song by Misc Traditional is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 3st fret. It uses the chords G, Bm, C, D, Em, Am and D7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
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