LIBERTYS IN EVERY BLOW, LET US DO OR DEE!!!!! Scots, wha hae wi Wallace bled Scots, wham Bruce has aften led Welcome to your gory bed Or to victorie! Nows the day, and nows the hour See the front o battle lour See approach proud Edwards power - Chains and slaverie! Wha wad be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a cowards grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee! Wha for Scotlands King and Law Freedoms sword wad strongly draw Freeman stand or freeman fa, Let him follow me! By Oppressions woes and pains By your sons in servile chains We will drain our dearest veins But they shall be free! Lay the proud usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe! Libertys in every blow! Let us do, or dee! We probably know what tune was played for Robert the Bruce’s troops as they marched to the battle of Bannockburn in 1314. Robert Burns wrote in a letter, There is a tradition, which I have met with in many places in Scotland, that [‘Hey Tuttie Taitie’] was Robert Bruce’s march at the battle of Bannockburn. Burns took the tune and slowed it down. ‘Hey Tuttie Taitie’ is a very old tune. We do not have a document from 1314 that says the tune was used at Bannockburn. But there is, we are told, a document in the French Château Royal de Blois that says the tune was played as a march by Joan of Arcs Scottish soldiers when she entered the city of Orleans on 29 April 1429. It was called a Scottish march then. It has been played as part of the annual Joan of Arc memorial celebrations in the town of Orleans, where they called it ‘Marche des Soldats de Robert Bruce’ (‘March of the Soldiers of Robert Bruce’). ‘Hey Tuttie Taitie’ demonstrates the problems of trying to put a simple label on a tune. It was used as a march. It is in the form of a strathspey. Burns gave two sets of lyrics for the tune - he wrote ‘Scots Wha Hae’ and wrote or added to ‘Landlady, Count the Lawin’, a song about drinking all night. So ‘Hey Tuttie Taitie’ is a march, a strathspey dance tune, and the tune of a patriotic song and a drinking song. & just look whos in the audiance here, Maya Angelou....YES!!!! youtube/watch?v=qx8hEoJNVdM
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