Neil Gow's Fareweel (1821, Glasgow)/My Heart's in the Highlands
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MY HEART’S in the HIGHLANDS.
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.
Farewel to the highlands, farewel 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.
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.
Farewel to the highlands, farewel 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.
Farewel to the mountains high covered with snow,
Farewel to the straths and green vallies below,
Farewel to the forests and wild hanging woods,
Farewel to the torrents and loud pouring floods.
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.
Farewel to the straths and green vallies below,
Farewel to the forests and wild hanging woods,
Farewel to the torrents and loud pouring floods.
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.