The Loch Tay Boat Song

Asonance

1. When I've done the work of day
   and I rowed my boat away
   down the waters of Loch Tay
   when the evening light is falling
   then I look toward Ben Lawers
   where the after glories glow
   and I dream of two bright eyes
   with a merry mouth below
   she's my beauteous nighean ruadh
   she's my joy and sorrow too
   though I own she is not true
   oh but I cannot live without her
   for my heart's a boat in tow
   and I'd give the world to know
   if she means to let me go
   as I sing hori horo.

2. Nighean ruadh I do declare
   there's more beauty in your hair
   than all the tresses fair
   from Killin to Aberfeldy
   be they lint-white gold or brown
   be they blacker than the sloe
   they mean not as much to me
   as a melting flake of snow
   and her dance is like the gleam
   of the sunlight on the stream
   and the songs that we folk sing
   oh they're the 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 hori horo.

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