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HEY TUTTI TAITI.
["I have met the tradition universally over Scotland, and parti-
cvilarly about Stirling, in the neighbourhood of the scene, that
this air was Robert Bruce's march at the battle of Bannock-
burn." — Burns.
Mr Ritson attaches no credit to this tradition. " It does not
seem at all probable," he says, " that the Scots had any mar-
tial music in the time of this monarch ; it being their custom,
at that period, for every man in the host to bear a little horn,
with the blowing of which, as we are told by Froissart, they
would make such a horrible noise as if all the devils of hell had
been among them. It is not, therefore, likely, that these un-
1^ polished warriors would be curious
' to move
In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood
Of flutes and soft recorders.'
These horns, indeed, are the only music ever mentioned by
Barbour, to whom any particular march would have been too
important a circvimstancc to be passed over in silence ; so that
it must remain a moot point, whether Bruce's army were chear-
ed by the sound of even a solitary bagpipe."— *-RiT son's Scot*
tish Songs, vol. i. p. xcii.]
Landlady count the lawiiij
The day is near the dawin;
Ye're a' blind drunk^ boys.
And I'm but jolly fou.
Hey tutti taiti,
Ho?v tulti taitiy
Hey hitti taitif
Whasfau 7iOfu f