Highlander's Farewell

HIGHLANDER’S FAREWELL

Oh the sweet memory when we met in the heather
How the sunlight would dance in your hair
Where I pledged you my love, I would be ever faithful
When you needed me most I’d be there
But now I’m a soldier and my love for old Scotland
Tells me that I must march away
Don’t ask me to choose between you and my country
For you know deep inside I can’t stay

For the time I’m away I will miss you my darlin’
But I’ll see you at night in my dreams
‘Til I’m home again won’t you say you’ll be waiting
In the high Scottish heather so green
The bagpipes will play as we march into battle
Where death will claim many brave men
And there I will long to see you and old Scotland
And to walk in the highlands again


Chorus So it’s farewell to you and to dear bonny Scotland
We’re sailing to far distant shores
But I promise you this, when the great war is over
I will love you no less—I’ll love more

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As fighting raged on he was mortally wounded
And he laid on the cold bloody ground
He said “take me back home to my sweet bonny Scotland
Where the heather will do me surround”
When they carried him home death was nearly upon him
As she kissed this brave soldier she loved
They buried him there in the midst of the heather
As the highlands looked down from above

Chorus So it’s farewell to you and to dear bonny Scotland
I am sailing to far distant shores