Anacoustic Mind - My Heart's In The Highlands

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This title from the great Scottish poet Robert Burns was so popular that the uber plagiarist Bob Dylan even used it as a lyric for one of his songs. And here I have taken all the lyrics and set them to my own music. Is nothing sacred.

It is often said that the past is another country.

Certainly as the Scottish poet Burns was growing up in the late 18th century, the Highlands of Scotland were very distant to the lowlanders and not just in geography or distance in that time of horse transport. In historical and political terms, there was a wide gulf recently fuelled by the Jacobite rebellions. (Don't forget that the last Jacobite leader was executed less than six years before Robert's birth in the auld clay cottage of Alloway, so the scars were very real and tender).

Add these varied factors together and the northern part of our nation was certainly another country in the eyes of our poet's Ayrshire neighbours. Different, but of course, equally Scottish. This was a puzzle Burns wanted to resolve!

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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 forever 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 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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released October 5, 2012
Words by Robert Burns.
The music and singing were written performed and produced by Mike Ogletree

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The Blaxcotsman Maggie Valley, North Carolina

The Blaxcotsman aka Mike Ogletree has been around, from drumming duties with 80's Scottish music legends Simple Minds and Fiction Factory to session work in Italy, then working as a sound engineer in L.A. In New York he created Anacoustic Mind, an exciting mixture of his Afro/Scottish soul and the pulsating energy of the planet's most culturally rich city. ... more