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Song—Farewell to the Highlands

by Robert Burns, 1789

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.
    My heart's in the Highlands, &c.

Published in Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
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