Poems by Robert Burns

Presented by the RBWF

My Heart ‘s in the Highlands

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 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.------

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, 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.--------