It is that time of the year again, come and help the St. Andrew’s Society of Jacksonville celebrate one of Scotland’s Native Sons… ROBERT BURNS. It will be held this year at the Hilltop Restaurant on Wells Road in Orange Park on January 20, 2024 with social hours starting at 6 pm with festivities starting at 7 pm. This event is by RSVP only. To access, RSVP form please go to the St Andrew’s Society Website and click under the Burns Dinner Tab. Please RSVP by Jabnuary 11, 2024 Can’t wait to see you there!!!
A Red, Red Rose
O my luve’s like a red, red rose,
That’s newly sprung in June:
O my luve’s like the melodie
That’s sweetly play’d in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonny lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry.
Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun
O I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o’ life shall run:
And fare thee weel, my only luve!
And fare thee weel a while!
And I will come again, my luve,
Though it were ten thousand mile.
My Heart’s in the Highlands
Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the north,
The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth;
Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,
The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.
Chorus
My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here;
My heart’s in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer;
A-chasing the wild-deer and following the roe,
My heart’s in the Highlands, wherever I go.
Farewell to the mountains high-cover’d with snow;
Farewell to the straths and green vallies below;
Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods;
Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods.