Loch Tay Boat Song

waltz

Key signature: Cmajor

Submitted on February 1st 2009 by match.

This tune has been added to 11 tunebooks.

Also known as The Loch Tay Boat Song.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• I Feel My Heart Fly by Darcy Nair
• If Ida Been Here, Ida Been There by Craobh Rua
• Kiss The Tears Away by Silly Wizard
• On Fire! by The Cottars
• The Burning West Indies by Meg Davis

X: 1
T: Loch Tay Boat Song
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Cmaj
|c|e2 dc2e|g3e2g|c'2 ba2g|g3e2c|
|f2 ga2g|g3e2c|e2 dd2e|f2 ed2c|
|e2 dc2e|g3e2g|c'2 ba2g|g3e2c|
|f2 ga2g|g3e2c|e2 dc2B|(c3c2)|
|g|c'2 ba2g|g3e2g|c'2 ba2g|g3e2c|
|f2 ga2g|g3e2c|e2 dd2e|f2 ed2c|
|e2 dc2e|g3e2g|c'2 ba2g|g3e2c|
|f2 ga2g|g3e2c|e2 dc2B|(c3c2)|

Loch Tay Boat Song

Don't know much about this song, other than it was made famous by the Corries. Its in C Major as I've been learning it on the harmonica, but it would probably do well to be shifted down bit.

# Posted on February 1st 2009 by match

It was made more famous by Dougie MacLean.

# Posted on February 1st 2009 by Kenny

The bar lines are in the wrong place. The first downbeat is on the first E, the C before it being a pick up note (or anacrusis, to be posh) so the first bar line should be after that first C.

The song is credited to one Harold Edwin Boulton (1859-1935).

# Posted on February 4th 2009 by DonaldK

Corrected abc

Thanks for that - now I'm revisiting it it I realise my mistake! I've fixed the abc to hopefully put the 'swing' in the right place for anyone new to the tune.

# Posted on April 2nd 2009 by match