Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg
A Song Dickens Heard

If your computer's sound is turned on, you will be hearing a version of "My Heart's in the Highlands"

"My Heart's in the Highlands"1
Robert Burns: 1795-1796

Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North,
The birthplace of valour, the country of worth!
Wherever I wander, wherever I roam,
The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.

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!

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!



1   The Cockney version of this song is referenced by Charles Dickens in "Sketches by Boz" (Penguin Classics, 1995, Scenes: Chapter 2, The Streets — Night, Endnote 10, p. 592; referenced on p. 78.)

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