C                Emi Ami

1. When I've done the work of day

          F        Dmi   Emi Ami

   and I rowed my boat away

             F     G        Emi Ami

   down the waters of Loch Tay

            D                 G

   when the evening light is falling

           C               Emi  Ami

   then I look toward Ben Lawers

             F       Dmi     Emi Ami

   where the after glories glow

           F        G        Emi Ami

   and I dream of two bright eyes

           Dmi   G       C

   with a merry mouth below

             F         Dmi     Emi Ami

   she's my beauteous nighean ruadh

             F       Dmi    Emi Ami

   she's my joy and sorrow too

            F       Dmi      Emi Ami

   though I own she is not true

             D              G

   oh but I cannot live without her

           C                 Emi Ami

   for my heart's a boat in tow

            F        Dmi       Emi Ami

   and I'd give the world to know

           F        G      Emi Ami

   if she means to let me go

         Dmi    G    C

   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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