Asonance - The Loch Tay Boat Song - text písně

When I've done the work of day,
and I row my boat away
Down the waters of Loch Tay
as the evening sun is sinking,

Then I look toward Ben Lawers,
where the after glories glow
And I dream on 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,
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.

Nighean ruadh, your lovely hair
has more beauty I declare
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,
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.






Poznámka/Remark
Gaelský obrat "nighean ruadh" znamená anglicky "red-haired girl", čili česky "rusovláska"; zalkání "hori horo" používají Skotové ve chvílích smutku. Ben Lawers je kopec severně od jezera Loch Tay; Killin a Aberfeldy jsou města na východním a západním konci jezera.
The Gaelic words "nighean ruadh" mean "red-haired girl"; "hori horo" are used by the Scots to indicate sorrow. Ben Lawers is a hill to the north of Loch Tay; Killin and Aberfeldy are towns on the east and west ends of the lake.

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