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