My Heart's in the Highlands

For the 1954 Jo Stafford album, see My Heart's in the Highlands (album). For the play by William Saroyan, see My Heart's in the Highlands (play).

My Heart's in the Highlands is a 1789 song and poem by Robert Burns sung to the tune Failte na Miosg.^[1]

Text

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.

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 ...

Compositions

My Heart's in the Highlands has been arranged for countertenor (alto) and organ by Arvo Pärt.^[2]

References

Robert Burns

Poems	"Comin' Thro' the Rye" (1782) "John Barleycorn" (1782) "Address to the Deil" (1785) "Epitaph for James Smith" (1785) "Halloween" (1785) "Holy Willie's Prayer" (1785) "To a Mouse" (1785) The Kilmarnock volume (1786) "To a Louse" (1786) "To a Mountain Daisy" (1786) "The Battle of Sherramuir" (1787) "The Birks of Aberfeldy" (1787) "Auld Lang Syne" (1788) "My Heart's in the Highlands" (1789) Tam o' Shanter (1790) "Ae Fond Kiss" (1791) "Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation" (1791) "Sweet Afton" (1791) "The Slave's Lament" (1792) "Oh, whistle and I'll come to you, my lad" (1793) "Scots Wha Hae" (1793) "A Red, Red Rose" (1794) "Is There for Honest Poverty" (1795)

Places	Burns Cottage Drukken Steps Ellisland Farm The Hermitage (Friars Carse) Writers' Museum

Family	Jean Armour (wife) Agnes Broun (mother) William Burnes (father) Gilbert Burns (brother)

People	John Anderson Alison Begbie Thomas Blacklock Nelly Blair Richard Brown May Cameron Mary Campbell Jenny Clow Lord Glencairn Frances Dunlop Jean Gardner Jean Glover Helen Hyslop Nelly Kilpatrick John MacKenzie Agnes Maclehose Ann Park Elizabeth Paton David Sillar Peggy Thompson

Related	Bachelors' Club, Tarbolton Burns Clubs Irvine Atlanta Burns supper Memorials Kilmarnock Montreal Barre Robert Burns (Stevenson) Robert Burns (Varga) Robert Burns (Steell) Robert Burns' diamond point engravings Robert Burns and the Eglinton Estate Robert Burns Humanitarian Award Robert Burns World Federation The Loves of Robert Burns (1930 film)

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