Lyrics
When I've done the work of day
And I row my boat away
Down the waters of Loch Tay
When the evening light is falling
Then I look towards Ben Lawers
Where the afterglories glow
And I dream on two bright eyes
With a merry mouthful O
She's my beauteous Nien Roch
She's my joy and sorrow too
Though I own she is not true
Ah, 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, "A ree-oh-ro"
A Nien Roch, your lovely hair
Has more beauty, I declare
Than all the tresses fair
From Killean 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 the wee 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, "A ree-oh-ro"
When I've done the work of day
And I row my boat away
Down the waters of Loch Tay
When the evening light is falling
Then I look towards Ben Lawers
Where the afterglories glow
And I dream on two bright eyes
With a merry mouthful O
She's my beauteous Nien Roch
She's my joy and sorrow too
Though I own she is not true
Ah, 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, "A ree-oh-ro"