My Heart's in the Highlands (2000)

My Heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here,

My heart’s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer—

A-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 valleys 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.

Robert Burns (1759-1796)