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Monday, January 25, 2010

Happy Robert Burns Day

Today is the 251st anniversary of the birth of one of my more famous ancestors and the man known as "Scotland's Favorite Son" and "the Ploughman Poet", Robert Burns.
"Rabbie" gave us such familiar poems as Auld Lang Syne, A Red, Red, Rose and the following:

My Heart's In The Highlands

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.

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 covered 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.

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.

1 comment:

kevin said...

Great stuff man....where do you come up with these things?