Cumarashindu

DESCRIPTION: The singer is "a dacent policeman, the pride o the Glesca Force." When he meets friends he says "Cumarachandhu." When he passes the boys "in ma bonnie coat o' blue" "they cry as I pass by, 'There goes Cumarachandhu'"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1917 (Greig/Duncan8)
KEYWORDS: police
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Greig/Duncan8 1902, "Cumarashindu" (1 fragment plus a single verse on p. 417, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: Chris Wright, "'Forgotten Broadsides and the Song Tradition of the Scots Travellers" -- essay found in David Atkinson and Steve Roud, Editors, _Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America: The Interface between Print and Oral Tradition_, Ashgate, 2014, p. 100, "Cumarachandhu" (copy of a Dundee Poet's Box broadside)
Roud #13562
ALTERNATE TITLES:
Cumarachandhu
The Russian Jew
NOTES [37 words]: Greig/Duncan8 text count includes one verse on p. 417. That verse is the basis for the description.
Greig/Duncan8: "'Cumarashindhu' is a representation of the Gaelic 'Ciamar a tha si(bh) 'n diugh?' (How are you today?)." - BS
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File: GrD81902

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