Halket is best known as a composer of Jacobite songs. Among them include ‘Whirry Whigs Awa'’, and ‘A Dialogue between the Devil and George II’, "which apparently caused the duke of Cumberland to offer a reward of £100 for the author dead or alive" acc. to the DNB. His classic love lyric ‘Logie o' Buchan’ is usually categorized as one of the best lowland Scottish songs.