---
title: "My Heart’s in the Highlands"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Song"
year: "1789"
tune: "Failte na Miosg"
location: "Ellisland"
source: "Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns"
source_url: "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt"
canonical_url: "https://robert-burns.com/poems/my-hearts-in-the-highlands/"
---

# My Heart’s in the Highlands

## Song
Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North,  
The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth;  
Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,  
The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.

*Chorus*  
My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here,  
My heart’s in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer;  
Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,  
My heart’s in the Highlands, wherever I go.

Farewell to the mountains, high-cover’d with snow,  
Farewell to the straths and green vallies below;  
Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods,  
Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods.

*Chorus*  
My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here,  
My heart’s in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer;  
Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,  
My heart’s in the Highlands, wherever I go.

---

Source: [Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt)  
Canonical HTML: https://robert-burns.com/poems/my-hearts-in-the-highlands/