| My Heart's in the Highlands | |
| Author: | Robert Burns |
| Country: | Scotland |
| Language: | English |
| Meter: | or |
| Publisher: | 1789 |
"My Heart's in the Highlands" is a 1789 song and poem by Robert Burns, sung to the tune "Fàilte na Miosg".[1]
1:
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.
2:
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.
(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.
3:
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.
(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, wherev'r I go
My heart's in the Highlands, farewell.
"My Heart's in the Highlands" has been arranged for countertenor (alto) and organ by Arvo Pärt.[2]
"My Heart's in the Highlands" was also arranged for lyre and guitar by Scottish ambient folk artist An Tuagh (Jamie Keddie).[3]