My Heart's in the Highlands – Arvo Pärt cover by Quercus [official]
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Channel: morbivod · 2017 · People & Blogs
This song is a doom metal cover version of the composition of the same name and serves as a tribute to two great minds: the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt and the Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759–1796).
Quercus
https://www.facebook.com/quercusdoom
http://quercusdoom.bandcamp.com/releases
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Quercus/13279
http://solitude-prod.com/blog/lang/eng/2016/04/sp-115-16-quercus-heart-with-bread
http://mfl-records.com
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LYRICS
Robert Burns:
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 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 –
Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe;
My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.
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photo by Quercus ("Brdy" highlands in the Czech Republic)
