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The Lads of Wamphray (Roud 4011,Child 184) is an English-language folk ballad, existing only in fragmentary form. According toWalter Scott and others, the ballad concerns a 16th-century feud betweenreiving families fromWamphray in the ScottishBorders.
The ballad opens with a description of the robberies of the Galiard and Galiard's men before the text breaks 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.
Percy Grainger took inspiration from this for his 1905 workThe Lads Of Wamphray March, his first composition forwind band.
