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Gil Brenton / Lord Bangwell’s Adventure

[ Roud 22 ; Child 5 ; Ballad Index C005 ; DT GILBRENT ; Mudcat 15301 ; trad.]

David Herd: Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, etc. James Kinsley: The Oxford Book of Ballad Emily B. Lyle: Andrew Crawfurd’s Collection of Ballads and Songs Sir Walter Scott: Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border

Andrew Crawfurd and William Motherwell collected Lord Bangwell’s Adventure from Mary Macqueen (Mrs. William Storrie, 1786-1854) of Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire in between 1826 and 1828. It was printed in 1997 in Emily B. Lyle’s book Andrew Crawfurd’s Collection of Ballads and Songs. Jo Miller sang Lord Bangwell’s Adventure on the accompanying Scottish Text Society cassette Mary Macqueen’s Ballads.

Nancy Kerr sang Gil Brenton to her own tune in April 2021 on the Sheffield Live programme Thank Goodness It’s Folk in their “Friday’s Child” series going through the Child ballads week by week.

Nancy Kerr also sang Gil Brenton as the title track of Magpie Arc’s forthcoming album Gil Brenton.