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My Heart's in the Highlands

Robert Burns

"My Heart's in the Highlands" is a 1789 song and poem by Robert Burns sung to the tune Failte na Miosg.

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“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.”

Robert Burns My Heart's in the Highlands

My Heart's in the Highlands, st. 1
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)

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