For The Sake O' Somebody Robert Burns Song Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of the For The Sake O' Somebody song by Robert Burns set to a slide show of some of my Scottish photographs of Winter in the Highlands.

My heart is sair, I dare na tell,
My heart is sair for Somebody;
I could wake a winter night
For the sake o' Somebody.
Oh-hon! for Somebody!
Oh-hey! for Somebody!
I could range the warld round,
For the sake o' Somebody.

Ye Powers that smile on virtuous love,
O, sweetly smile on Somebody!
Frae ilka danger keep him free,
And send me safe my Somebody!
Ohon! for Somebody!
Ohey! for Somebody!
I wad do, what wad I not
For the sake o' Somebody!

Lyrics in English

My heart is sad, I don't say it
My heart is sad for someone;
I could wake up the longest night
And always dream of someone.
O bliss! from someone;
Oh heaven! from someone;
I could roam the whole world
For the love of someone.
You powers that hold love,
O smiles kindly on someone!
Shield him where there is danger;
Make sure to escort someone!
O bliss! to someone;
Oh heaven! to someone;
I wanted, I wanted, what I didn't want
For my someone!

Robert Burns was born, on the 25 January 1759, two miles south of Ayr, Ayrshire, in Alloway, the eldest of the seven children of William Burnes, a self educated tenant farmer from Dunnottar in the Mearns, and Agnes Broun, the daughter of a Kirkoswald tenant farmer. The only occasion that Robert Burns visited Perth, Perthshire, was towards the end of his 22 day tour of the Highlands during August and September, 1787.

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