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John Gait died at Greenock in April 1839. The motto to the epistle was: "When the pipes begin to play Tutti taittie to the drum, Out claymore and down wi' gun, And to the rogues again." In the next edition it was suppressed, as some friends thought it might be misunderstood. Mr.
I do not know whether the old air "Hey tuttie taittie" may rank among this number; but well I know that, with Frazer's hautboy, it has often filled my eyes with tears. There is a tradition, which I have met with in many places of Scotland, that it was Robert Bruce's march at the battle of Bannockburn.
Again, the stately rhythm and march of some of the oldest airs make them peculiarly suitable for patriotic songs; and Burns took advantage of this when he adapted "Scots wha hae" to the air of "Hey, Tuttie Taittie!" for to this spirit-stirring strain Bruce and his heroes marched to the field of Bannock-burn.
This thought, in my solitary wanderings, warmed me to a pitch of enthusiasm on the theme of Liberty and Independence, which I threw into a kind of Scottish ode, fitted to the air, that one might suppose to be the gallant Royal Scot's address to his heroic followers on that eventful morning. BRUCE TO HIS TROOPS, On the Eve of the Battle of Bannockburn. Hey tuttie taittie.
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