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.^[1]

Text

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), bagpipes and organ by Arvo Pärt.^[2]

References