Tonart: E major•
Intro 1
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Em
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Verse 1
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Well my heart's in The Highlands,
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Em
gentle and fair
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Honeysuckle blooming in
Bluebells blazing where the
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Well my heart's in The Highlands
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I'm gonna go there when I feel
Interlude 1
Verse 2
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Windows were shaking all
night in my dreams
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Everything was exactly the
Woke up this mornin' and I looked
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at the same old page
Same old rat race,
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life in the same old cage
Em
I don't want nothin' from anyone,
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ain't that much to take
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Wouldn't know the difference between
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a real blonde and a fake
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Feel like a prisoner in a world of mystery
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I wish someone'd come and
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push back the clock for me
Verse 3
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Well my heart's in The Highlands
wherever I roam
That's where I'll be when
The wind it whispers to the
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Well, my heart's in The Highlands
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I can only get there one step at a time
Em
I'm listening to Neil Young,
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I gotta turn up the sound
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Someone's always yellin'
Feel like I'm driftin',
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driftin' from scene to scene
I'm wonderin' what in the devil
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could it all possibly mean
Interlude 2
Verse 4
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Insanity is smashin' up against my soul
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You could say I was on anything but a roll
If I had a conscience,
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well I just might blow my top
What would I do with it anyway,
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maybe take it to the pawn shop?
Em
My heart's in The High
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lands at the break of dawn
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By the beautiful lake of the Black Swan
Big white clouds like chariots
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Well my heart's in The Highlands,
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Verse 5
I'm in Boston town in some restaurant
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I got no idea what I want
Or maybe I do but I'm just
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really not sure
Waitress comes over,
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nobody in the place but me and her
Well it must be a holiday,
Em
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there's nobody around
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She studies me closely as I sit down
She got a pretty face and long
white shiny legs
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Verse 6
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I said "Tell me what I want"
She say "You probably want
I said "That's right, bring me some"
She says "We ain't got any,
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you picked the wrong time to come"
Then she says "I know you're an artist,
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I said "I would if I could but
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I don't do sketches from memory"
Well she's there,
she says "I'm right here in front of you
Verse 7
Or haven't you looked?"
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I say "All right, I know but I don't
She gives me a napkin,
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she say "You can do it on that"
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I say "Yes I could but I don't
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know where my pencil is at"
She pulls one out from behind her ear
She says "Alright now go ahead draw
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me I'm stayin' right here"
I make a few lines and I show
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Well she takes the napkin and
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throws it back and says
Interlude 3
"That don't look a thing like me"
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Verse 8
Em
I said "Oh kind miss,
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it most certainly does"
She say "You must be joking",
I said "I wish I was"
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She says "You don't read
women authors do ya?"
At least that's what I
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Well I say "How would you know,
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and what would it matter anyway?"
Well she says "Ya just don't
seem like ya do"
I said "You're way wrong"
She says "Which ones have you read then?",
I say "Read Erica Jong"
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She goes away for a minute,
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and I slide out, out of my chair
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I step outside back to the busy street,
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but nobody's goin' anywhere
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Verse 9
Em
Well my heart's in The Highlands
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with the horses and hounds
Way up in the border country
With the twang of the arrow
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and the snap of the bow
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My heart's in The Highlands,
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can't see any other way to go
Every day is the same thing, out the door
Feel further away than ever before
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Some things in life it just
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Well I'm lost somewhere,
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I must have made a few bad turns
Interlude 4
E
Em
I see people in the park,
Verse 10
Em
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forgettin' their troubles and woes
They're drinkin' and dancin',
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wearin' bright colored clothes
All the young men with the young
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Well, I'd trade places with any of 'em,
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in a minute if I could
I'm crossin' the street to get
away from a mangy dog
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Talkin' to myself in a monologue
I think what I need might be a
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full-length leather leather coat
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Somebody just asked me if
Interlude 5
I'm registered to vote
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Em
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The sun is beginnin'
Verse 11
to shine on me
But it's not like the sun that
The party's over and there's
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less and less to say
I got new eyes,
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everything looks far away
Well my heart's in The Highlands
at the break of day
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Over the hills and far away
There's a way to get there,
and I'll figure it out somehow
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Well I'm already there in my mind
Outro 1
and that's good enough for now
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