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  13 <h1 class="songtitle">Highlands</h1>
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  16 <p>Words and music by Bob Dylan<br />
  17 Released on <a class="recordlink" href="index.htm">Time out of Mind</a> (1997)<br />
  18 Tabbed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem</p>
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  21 E7
  22 Well my heart's in The Highlands, gentle and fair
  23
  24 Honeysuckle blooming in the wildwood air
  25 A                                           E7
  26 Bluebells blazing where the Aberdeen waters flow
  27         B7
  28 Well my heart's in The Highlands
  29           A                                   E7
  30 I'm gonna go there when I feel good enough to go
  31
  32 Windows were shaking all night in my dreams
  33 Everything was exactly the way that it seems
  34 Woke up this mornin' and I looked at the same old page
  35 Same old rat race, life in the same old cage
  36
  37 I don't want nothin' from anyone, ain't that much to take
  38 Wouldn't know the difference between a real blonde and a fake
  39 Feel like a prisoner in a world of mystery
  40 I wish someone'd come and push back the clock for me
  41
  42 Well my heart's in The Highlands wherever I roam
  43 That's where I'll be when I get called home
  44 The wind it whispers to the buckeyed trees in rhyme
  45 Well my heart's in The Highlands
  46 I can only get there one step at a time
  47
  48 I'm listening to Neil Young, I gotta turn up the sound
  49 Someone's always yellin' &quot;Turn it down&quot;
  50 Feel like I'm driftin', driftin' from scene to scene
  51 I'm wonderin' what in the devil could it all possibly mean?
  52
  53 Insanity is smashin' up against my soul
  54 You could say I was on anything but a roll
  55 If I had a conscience, well I just might blow my top
  56 What would I do with it anyway, maybe take it to the pawn shop
  57
  58 My heart's in The Highlands at the break of dawn
  59 by the beautiful lake of the Black Swan
  60 Big white clouds like chariots that swing down low
  61 Well my heart's in The Highlands only place left to go
  62
  63 I'm in Boston town in some restaurant
  64 I got no idea what I want
  65 or maybe I do but I'm just really not sure
  66 Waitress comes over, nobody in the place but me and her
  67
  68 Well it must be a holiday, there's nobody around
  69 She studies me closely as I sit down
  70 She got a pretty face and long white shiny legs
  71 I said &quot;Tell me what I want&quot;
  72 She say &quot;You probably want hard boiled eggs&quot;
  73
  74 I said &quot;That's right, bring me some&quot;
  75 She says &quot;We ain't got any, you picked the wrong time to come&quot;
  76 then she says &quot;I know you're an artist, draw a picture of me&quot;
  77 I said &quot;I would if I could but
  78 I don't do sketches from memory&quot;
  79
  80 Well she's?? near she says &quot;I'm right here in front of you or haven't you looked&quot;
  81 I say &quot;All right I know but I don't have my drawin' book&quot;
  82 She gives me a napkin, she say &quot;You can do it on that&quot;
  83 I say &quot;Yes I could but I don't know where my pencil is at&quot;
  84
  85 She pulls one out from behind her ear
  86 She says &quot;Alright now go ahead draw me I'm stayin' right here&quot;
  87 I make a few lines and I show it for her to see
  88 Well she takes the napkin and throws it back and says
  89 &quot;That don't look a thing like me&quot;
  90
  91 I said &quot;Oh kind miss, it most certainly does&quot;
  92 She say &quot;You must be joking&quot;, I said &quot;I wish I was&quot;
  93 She says &quot;You don't read women authors do ya?&quot;
  94 at least that's what I think I hear her say
  95 Well I say &quot;How would you know, and what would it matter anyway&quot;
  96
  97 Well she says &quot;Ya just don't seem like ya do&quot;, I said &quot;You're way wrong&quot;
  98 She says &quot;Which ones have you read then?&quot;, I say &quot;Read Erica Jong&quot;
  99 She goes away for a minute, and I slide out, out of my chair
 100 I step outside back to the busy street, but nobody's goin' anywhere
 101
 102 Well my heart's in The Highlands with the horses and hounds
 103 way up in the border country far from the towns
 104 with the twang of the arrow and the snap of the bow
 105 My heart's in The Highlands, can't see any other way to go
 106
 107 Every day is the same thing, out the door
 108 feel further away than ever before
 109 Some things in life it just gets too late to learn
 110 Well I'm lost somewhere, I must have made a few bad turns
 111
 112 I see people in the park, forgettin' their troubles and woes
 113 They're drinkin' and dancin', wearin' bright colored clothes
 114 All the young men with the young women lookin' so good
 115 Well I'd trade places with any of 'em, in a minute if I could
 116
 117 I'm crossin' the street to get away from a mangy dog
 118 talkin' to myself in a monologue
 119 I think what I need might be a full length leather coat
 120 Somebody just asked me if I'm registered to vote
 121
 122 The sun is beginnin' to shine on me
 123 But it's not like the sun that used to be
 124 The party's over and there's less and less to say
 125 I got new eyes, everything looks far away
 126
 127 Well my heart's in The Highlands at the break of day
 128 over the hills and far away
 129 There's a way to get there, and I'll figure it out somehow
 130 Well I'm already there in my mind and that's good enough for now
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 134
 135 <p>*) From a post at r.m.d.:</p>
 136 <h4>Highlands source</h4>
 137
 138 <p> OK, so the song &ldquo;Highlands&rdquo; contains the line 'My heart's in the<br />
 139  highlands.&rdquo; The source of this line (my apologies to all of you who know<br />
 140  this already) is a song by Robert Burns. The song was first published in<br />
 141  1790, and, like many of Burns's songs, was his own expansion of lines<br />
 142  gathered from the folk tradition.</p>
 143
 144 <p> In the 1960s, as I recall, the song was somewhat scorned in Scotland. <br />
 145  (Andrew Muir can perhaps confirm this.) It was seen as one of Burns's<br />
 146  polite, sentimental songs, written for an English audience (as witness its<br />
 147  English, not Scottish, vocabulary). In the 1960s, it was the kind of<br />
 148  thing which would have been sung by genteel, middle-class, pseudo-Scots<br />
 149  entertainers, rather than by the genuine singers of the Scottish folk<br />
 150  renaissance. (That is, to get really local, it's a song more likely to<br />
 151  have been performed by Kenneth MacKellar than by Archie Fisher &ndash; right,<br />
 152  Andy?)</p>
 153
 154 <p> Anyway, with these (serious) reservations, here are the lyrics:</p>
 155
 156 <p> My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here;<br />
 157  My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;<br />
 158  Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe;<br />
 159  My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go. --</p>
 160
 161 <p> Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North;<br />
 162  The birth-place of valour, the country of Worth:<br />
 163  Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,<br />
 164  The hills of the Highlands for ever I love. --</p>
 165
 166 <p> Farewell to the mountains high cover'd with snow;<br />
 167  Farewell to the Straths and green valleys below;<br />
 168  Farewell to the forest and wild-hanging woods;<br />
 169  Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods. --</p>
 170
 171 <p> My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,<br />
 172  My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;<br />
 173  Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe;<br />
 174  My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go. --</p>
 175
 176 <p> Stephen Scobie
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