My Heart's in the Highlands

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here;

My heart's in the Highkands, a chasing the deer;

A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe -

My heart in the Highlands wherever I go.

Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North,

The birthplace of valour, the country of worth:

Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,

The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.

Farewell to the mountains high cover'd with snow;

Farewell to the straths and green valleys below;

Farewell to the forests and wild-handing woods;

Farewell to the torrents and loud pouring floods.

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here;

My heart's in the Highkands, a chasing the deer;

A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe -

My heart in the Highlands wherever I go.

Robert Burns (1739 - 1796)