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1789 · Song

My Heart’s in the Highlands


Tune ·  Failte na Miosg

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.
Year
1789
Form
Song
Location
Ellisland
Tune
Failte na Miosg
Source
Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns