Chords with lyrics
G+G B minorBm C majorC D MajorD G+G
When I've done the work of day and I row my boat away
E minorEm C majorC D MajorD G+G E minorEm A minorAm D MajorD
Down the waters of Loch Tay when the evening light is fallin'
D7D7 G+G B minorBm C majorC D MajorD G+G
Then I look towards Ben Lawers where the afterglories glow
E minorEm C majorC D MajorD G+G E minorEm A minorAm D MajorD G+G
And I dream on two bright eyes with a merry mouth below
C majorC D MajorD G+G
SheUs my beauteous nighean ruach nighean ruach = red-haired lass:
E minorEm C majorC D MajorD G+G
She's my joy and sorrow too
E minorEm C majorC D MajorD G+G
Though I own she is not true
E minorEm A minorAm D MajorD
Ah, but I cannot live without her
D7D7 G+G B minorBm
For my heart's a boat in tow
E minorEm C majorC D MajorD B minorBm
And I'd give the world to know
E minorEm C majorC D MajorD G+G
If she means to let me go
E minorEm A minorAm D MajorD G+G
As she sings horee horo
G+G B minorBm C majorC D MajorD G+G
Nighean ruach, your lovely hair has more beauty I declare
E minorEm C majorC D MajorD G+G E minorEm A minorAm D MajorD
Than all the tresses fair from Killen to Aberfeldy
D7D7 G+G B minorBm C majorC D MajorD G+G
Be they lint, white, gold or brown, be they blacker than the sloe
E minorEm C majorC D MajorD G+G E minorEm A minorAm D MajorD G+G
They mean not as much to me as a meltin' flake of snow
C majorC D MajorD G+G
And her dance is like the gleam
E minorEm C majorC D MajorD G+G
Of the sunlight on the stream
E minorEm C majorC D MajorD G+G
And the songs the wee folk sing
E minorEm A minorAm D MajorD
Ah, they're the songs she sings at milkin'
D7D7 G+G B minorBm
But my heart is full of woe
E minorEm C majorC D MajorD B minorBm
For last night she bade me go
E minorEm C majorC D MajorD G+G
And the tears begin to flow
E minorEm A minorAm D MajorD G+G
As I sing horee horo