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 …[2]
Compositions
My Heart's in the Highlands has been arranged for countertenor (alto) and organ by Arvo Pärt.[3]
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References
External Links
Interpretations
- "My Heart’s in the Highlands" on YouTube Lorna Anderson, soprano; Concerto Caledonia directed by David McGuinness
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