The Hundred Best Poems (lyrical) in the English language - second series/My Heart's in the Highlands

by Adam Luke Gowans

For other versions of this work, see My Heart's in the Highlands.

Chorus.

⁠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!

I.

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.

II.

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 !

Chorus.

: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!