Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

  highland harry back again
  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.
  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 dowie up the glen;
  i set me down and greet my fill,
  and aye i wish him back again.
  o for him, c.
  o were some villains hangit high,
  and ilka body had their ain!
  then i might see the joyfu' sight,
  my highland harry back again.
  o for him, c.