My Heart's in the Highlands
by Robert Burns
CountryScotland
LanguageEnglish
Meteror
Publisher1789

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

"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

  1. ↑ "Failte Na Miosg (waltz) on The Session". Thesession.org. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  2. ↑ "Arvo Pärt My Heart's in the Highlands Else Torp and Christopher Bowers". YouTube. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  3. ↑ "An Tuagh My Heart's In the Highlands (feat. Chris Corrigan)". YouTube. Retrieved 3 August 2023.
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