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Lyr Req: Mosstrooper's Lament Related threads: Lyr/Tune Add: Moss Trooper's Lament (5) The Mosstrooper's Lament (9) |
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Subject: Mosstrooper's Lament From: GUEST,t56ds@mun.ca Date: 21 Mar 01 - 05:44 PM I'm looking for the lyrics to the Mosstrooper's Lament. Archie Fisher sings it but I don't know who wrote it. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mosstrooper's Lament From: Sorcha Date: 21 Mar 01 - 06:00 PM Hmmm. this thread says it's on the Contemplator's Folk site, but I couldn't find it there, even with her search engine........strange. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mosstrooper's Lament From: mousethief Date: 21 Mar 01 - 06:13 PM What's a mosstrooper? |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mosstrooper's Lament From: Sorcha Date: 21 Mar 01 - 06:16 PM Beats the hell outa me, Alex! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mosstrooper's Lament From: mousethief Date: 21 Mar 01 - 06:19 PM Glad to see I'm not the only one, Sorch. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mosstrooper's Lament From: Sorcha Date: 21 Mar 01 - 06:27 PM HA! I went back there and just searched for Lament instead of Mosstrooper's Lament, and found it! Click me Baby! Now maybe we can find out what a mosstrooper is............ |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mosstrooper's Lament From: mousethief Date: 21 Mar 01 - 06:35 PM A scottish warrior in a particular battle? I'm still lost. |
Subject: Lyr Add: MOSS TROOPER'S LAMENT From: Snuffy Date: 21 Mar 01 - 06:35 PM It's MOSS TROOPER'S LAMENT
Oh! a' ye gallant Borders! Wassail! V |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mosstrooper's Lament From: Snuffy Date: 21 Mar 01 - 06:36 PM I fouled up on the link, but Sorcha gives it anyway. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mosstrooper's Lament From: mousethief Date: 21 Mar 01 - 06:42 PM Alas! it says who they were (border raiders) but not how they acquired their picturesque name. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mosstrooper's Lament From: GUEST,t56ds@mun.ca Date: 21 Mar 01 - 07:54 PM Thanks guys |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mosstrooper's Lament From: mcpiper Date: 22 Mar 01 - 06:15 AM If my memory serves me right the Mosstroopers took their name from the fact that areas of the Borders where known as Mosses, maybe the as other areas are called sands etc. One area inhabited by the Armstrongs was known as the Debatables. If you want a real interesting read about the mosstroopers, their life and times, try to get a book called The Steel Bonnets, by McDonald Fraser, as in the Flashman novels. It has all sorts of info and stories about them, it may even prove my memory has completely failed and I have them confused with something else. As a Northumbrian smallpipe player I felt I should learn a little about Border history, I found it really interesting. If anyone finds that book, I would love to buy a copy as well. Cheers. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mosstrooper's Lament From: Wolfgang Date: 22 Mar 01 - 06:31 AM from the Geordie online dictionary: MOSS TROOPER. A Border raider accustomed to cross the mosses of the march lands.
Moss-troopers: that is thieves and robbers, who, after having committed offences in the Borders, do escape through wastes and mosses. Wolfgang |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mosstrooper's Lament From: GUEST Date: 26 May 23 - 10:28 AM Archie's introduction on Tobar an Dualchais explains a lot, including the connection to the Riding of the Marches that still happens every year in a number of Borders towns: https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/93060?l=en |
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