Catalogue title: 12 Songs of Various Nationalities.

Scoring: voice, mixed chorus (STB), violin, cello, piano (Nos.1, 9, 11) voice, violin, cello, piano (Nos.2, 8, 10, 12) 2 sopranos, bass, violin,... Read more

Catalogue title: 12 Songs of Various Nationalities.

Scoring: voice, mixed chorus (STB), violin, cello, piano (Nos.1, 9, 11) voice, violin, cello, piano (Nos.2, 8, 10, 12) 2 sopranos, bass, violin, cello, piano (Nos.3, 4) soprano, tenor, bass, violin, cello, piano (Nos.5, 7) 2 voices, violin, cello, piano (No.6).

Composed: 1815-20.

Individual item 9 from the corresponding collection, not the complete set.

Item in the set: Highlander’s Lament. Espressivo (E minor).

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 Highland Harry back again!

CHORUS:
O for him back again,
O for him back again,
I wad gie a Knockhaspie’s land
For Highland Harry back again!
When a’ the lave gae to their bed,
I wander dowly up ghe glen;
I set me down and greet my fill,
And ay I wish him back again.

REFRAIN

CHORUS

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

REFRAIN

CHORUS

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

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