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My Heart's in the Highlands

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My Heart's in the Highlands

My Heart's in the Highlands is a 1789 song and poem by Robert Burns sung to the tune Failte na Miosg.

Contents

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1:

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.

2:

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 ...

Compositions

My Heart's in the Highlands has been arranged for countertenor (alto) and organ by Arvo Pärt.

References

My Heart's in the Highlands Wikipedia