Catalogue title: 12 Scottish Songs.

Scoring: soprano, tenor, bass, violin, cello, piano (Nos.1-4, 8-12) voice, violin, cello, piano (Nos.5-7).

Composed: 1815-19.

Individual item 6 from the... Read more

Catalogue title: 12 Scottish Songs.

Scoring: soprano, tenor, bass, violin, cello, piano (Nos.1-4, 8-12) voice, violin, cello, piano (Nos.5-7).

Composed: 1815-19.

Individual item 6 from the corresponding collection, not the complete set.

Item in the set: Highland Harry. Allegretto spiritoso (D major).

Sung text (original language):
My harry was a gallant gay,
Fu’ stately strade he on the plain;
But now he’s banish’d far away,
I’ll never see him back again.

REFRAIN:
O for him back again,
O for him back again,
I wad gie a Knockhaspie’s land
For Higland Harry back again.

When a’ the lave gae to their bed,
I wander dowly up the glen:
I set me down and greet my fill
And ay I wish him back again.

REFRAIN

O where some villains hangit high,
And ilka body had their ain!
Then I might see the joyfu’ sight,
My Higland Harry back again.

REFRAIN

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

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