Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Loch Tay Boat Song , by - Kurt Elling. Song from the album Passion World, in the genre Release date: 07.06.2015
Record label: Concord
Song language: English
Loch Tay Boat Song |
| Lyric by Sir Harold Boulton |
| When I’ve done my work of day / And I row my boat away |
| Down the waters o' Loch Tay / As the evening light is fading |
| And I look upon Ben Lawers / Where the after-glory glows |
| And I think on two bright eyes / And the merry mouth below |
| She’s my beauteous nighean ruadh* / She’s my joy and 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 of snow |
| Her eyes are like the gleam / O' the sunlight on the stream |
| And the songs the fairies sing / Seem 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 |
| (* «Nighean ruadh» is Scottish Gaelic for «red-haired girl».) |