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My Heart's in the Highlands

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"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.

Compositions[edit]

"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]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• "My Heart’s in the Highlands" on YouTube Lorna Anderson, soprano; Concerto Caledonia directed by David McGuinness