Daughter of the Highlands

From the word start, my feet set to wander

Down shady lanes in the morning

Endlessly searching in restless abandon

Reaching for my Hannah

Daughter of the Highlands

With eyes full of gauze and shoes full of gravel

I don't know the way, still, l follow

Down through the ages, eternally longing

Combing the highlands for my Hannah

And when I get to town, I'll dance you all around

Drain the old malt barrel, we'll be smiling

We'll laugh till we cry, make love till we die

Oh, how I've missed you, Hannah

Daughter of the Highlands

I've endured battle scars, my best years in the trenches

And cruel sounds of war that can't be silenced

Well, it left my ears a-ringing, still, I hear Hannah singing

Calling my heart back to the Highlands

In my dreams, you're always young

Although now you'd be much older

Your face still unchanged, your eyes still crying

From the day you got the letter that told you I would never

Make it home to you, my Hannah

Daughter of the Highlands

And when I get to town, I'll dance you all around

Drain the old malt barrel and be smiling

Then we'll laugh till we cry, make love till we die

Oh, how I've missed you, Hannah

Daughter of the Highlands

In the still hour of dawn, like a vapor rushing over

The waters of time, our love keeps riding

Not just mine, but all my brothers and so many others

Still haunting across the misty Highlands

For though your darling boys, who went away to join

Have left this world and never more, you'll find them

But our souls go marching on, and you'll hear us like a song

When the wind comes a-whistling through the Highlands

We'll laugh till we cry, make love till we die

Oh, how we've missed those daughters of the Highlands