My Heart’s in the Highlands is a 1789 song and poem by Robert Burns, sung to the tune of the Gaelic air “Fàilte na Miosg”. A short dittie, it captures Burns love and longing for the Scottish highlands.

My hairt’s in the Highlands, my heart isna here,

My hairt’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.

Fareweel tae the mountains, high-cover’d wi snaw,

Fareweel tae the straths and green valleys below;

Fareweel tae the forests and wild-hanging woods,

Fareweel tae 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.

Fareweel the 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.