Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 292. Song—Farewell to the Highlands |
| | | | | Tune—“Failte na Miosg.” |
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| 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. | |
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| Chorus.—My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here, | 5 |
| 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. | |
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| Farewell to the mountains, high-cover’d with snow, | |
| Farewell to the straths and green vallies below; | 10 |
| Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods, | |
| Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods. | |
| My heart’s in the Highlands, &c. | |
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