My Heart 's In The Highlands

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 for ever I love.

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, wherever I go.

Robert Burns . 1759-1796

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born 1759, died 1796

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