The Hundred Best Poems (lyrical) in the English language - second series/My Heart's in the Highlands
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My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
FAREWELL to the Highlands, farewell to the North,
Farewell to the mountains high cover'd with snow,
:My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
15.
My Heart's in the Highlands.
Chorus.
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!
I.
The birthplace of valour, the country of worth!
Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,
The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.
II.
Farewell to the straths and green valleys below,
Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods,
Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods !
Chorus.
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!