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Song—Highland Harry back again

by Robert Burns, 1789

My Harry was a gallant gay,
  Fu' stately strade he on the plain;
But now he's banish'd far away,
  I'll never see him back again.

Chorus.—o for him back again!
O for him back again!
I wad gie a' Knockhaspie's land
For Highland Harry back again.

When a' the lave gae to their bed,
  I wander dowie up the glen;
I set me down and greet my fill,
  And aye I wish him back again.
      O for him, &c.

O were some villains hangit high,
  And ilka body had their ain!
Then i might see the joyfu' sight,
  My Highland Harry back again.
      O for him, &c.

Published in Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
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