"My Heart's in the Highlands" is a 1789 song and poem by
Robert Burns
Robert Burns (25 January 175921 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who hav ...
, sung to the tune "Failte na Miosg".
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.
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Chorus
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: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
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alto
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) and organ by
Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt (; born 11 September 1935) is an Estonian composer of contemporary classical music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs tintinnabuli, a compositional technique he invented. Pärt's music is in pa ...
.
"My Heart's in the Highlands" was also arranged for
lyre
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and guitar by Scottish ambient folk artist An Tuagh (Jamie Keddie).
References
External links
* Lorna Anderson, soprano; Concerto Caledonia directed by David McGuinness
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1789 songs
Songs with lyrics by Robert Burns
Poetry by Robert Burns