The Lads of Wamphray

The Lads of Wamphray

The Lads of Wamphray is Child ballad 184, existing in fragmentary form. According to Walter Scott and others, the ballad concerns a 16th century feud between reiving families from Wamphray in the Scottish Borders.

ynopsis

The ballad opens with a description of the robberies of the Galiard and Galiard's men before the text break off.

When the ballad resumes, the Galiard has taken a horse, but it proves not fast enough; he is captured, and his captors hang him. His nephew sees, raises men, and avenges his death. They return home safely.

Adaptations

Percy Grainger took inspiration from this for his first work for wind band, in 1905: "The Lads Of Wamphray March".

ources

* [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12742/12742-h/12742-h.htm Walter Scott, "Minstrelsy of the Scottish border" (1802)]
* [http://www.electricscotland.com/history/dumfries/chapter8.htm C L Johnstone, "The Historical Families of Dunfriesshire and the Border Wars" (1878)]

External links

* [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch184.htm "The Lads of Wamphray"]


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