My Heart's in the Highlands...

What's Burns Night without a wee dram and a verse or two? *clears throat*

"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; 

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 vallies below; 

Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods, 

Farewell 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, wherever I go."

Robert Burns.

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Ps: To all my Australian chums...