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 

*To play it in C (for the Corries version) transpose -7