"My Heart's in the Highlands"
a 1789 song and poem by Robert Burns
- 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 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 forever I'll love.
- 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 valleys below;
- Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods,
- Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods.
- 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, wherev'r I go
- My heart's in the Highlands, farewell.
