Loch Tay Boat Song Chords
by Silly Wizard
Loch Tay Boat Song by Silly Wizard is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. 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 C D G
When I've done the work of day and I row my boat away
Em C D G Em Am D
Down the waters of Loch Tay when the evening light is fallin'
D7 G Bm C D G
Then I look towards Ben Lawers where the afterglories glow
Em C D G Em Am D G
And I dream on two bright eyes with a merry mouth below
C D G
SheUs my beauteous nighean ruach nighean ruach = red-haired lass
Em C D G
She's my joy and sorrow too
Em C D G
Though I own she is not true
Em Am D
Ah, but I cannot live without her
D7 G Bm
For my heart's a boat in tow
Em C D Bm
And I'd give the world to know
Em C D G
If she means to let me go
Em Am D G
As she sings horee horo
G Bm C D G
Nighean ruach, your lovely hair has more beauty I declare
Em C D G Em Am D
Than all the tresses fair from Killen to Aberfeldy
D7 G Bm C D G
Be they lint, white, gold or brown, be they blacker than the sloe
Em C D G Em Am D G
They mean not as much to me as a meltin' flake of snow
C D G
And her dance is like the gleam
Em C D G
Of the sunlight on the stream
Em C D G
And the songs the wee folk sing
Em Am D
Ah, they're the songs she sings at milkin'
D7 G Bm
But my heart is full of woe
Em C D Bm
For last night she bade me go
Em C D G
And the tears begin to flow
Em Am D G
As I sing horee horo
*To play it in C (for the Corries version) transpose -7