Loch Tay Boat Song

By: Scottish Traditional

Verse 1

When I'm done the work of day And I row my boat away Dawn the waters of Loch Tay When the evening light is fallen

Verse 2

Then I look towards Ben Lass Where the after glories glow And I dream of two bright eyes Where the Mary Mirth glow

Verse 3

She's my beauteous Maiden Loch She's my Joy and Sorrow too Though I own she is not true Ah, but I cannot live without her

Verse 4

For my heart's a boat in two And I'd give the world to know If she means to let me go As I send me slowly home

Verse 5

And in Loch her loving hair Has more beauty I declare Then all the tresses fair From Cildain to Aber Felde

Verse 6

Be they lent, white, gold, or brown Be they blacker than the sloe They meant not as much to me As a meltin' flake of snow

Verse 7

And her dance is like the gleam Of the sunlight on the stream And the songs that we folk sing Oh they're songs that she sings milkin'

Verse 8

But my heart is full of woe For last night she bade me go And the tears began to flow As I silently go home

Verse 9

When I'm done the work of day And I row my boat away Dawn the waters of Loch Tay When the evening light is fallen