MY HEART’S IN THE HIGHLANDS

MY HEART’S IN THE HIGHLANDSI keep returning to this extraordinary minimalist masterpiece written by Arvo Pärt and performed by the wonderful Else Torp and Christopher Bowers. Else sang with my husband on the song ‘Distant Sky’ from his Skeleton Tree album. Such a heartbreakingly gorgeous voice that turns the 18th century Scottish poem ‘My heart's in the Highlands’ by Robert Burns into a thing of haunted and majestic beauty. Just sublime. Love Susie x

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acnH6M1Ee8k

 

My Heart's in the Highlands

 

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 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.


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;

Farwell to 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, whereever I go.