Young Jimmie Drummond

DESCRIPTION: The singer is Jimmie Drummond, well known, and quickly handcuffed and led off to jail. After a year he quickly changes his colors. But he will no longer betray his fellows. Whenever police snatch someone for stealing, they will have snatched him alone.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1952 (recording, Jeannie Robertson)
KEYWORDS: captivity prison tinker
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Porter/Gower-Jeannie-Robertson-EmergentSingerTransformativeVoice #24, pp. 153-154, "Jimmie Drummond" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2506 and 2157
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Choring Song" (theme)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
Jimmie Drummond
Big Jimmie Drummond
NOTES [114 words]: While this song has references to plot, in the main it would seem to be a dance tune. Porter/Gower-Jeannie-Robertson-EmergentSingerTransformativeVoice report that the "Rev. John Skinner adapted words to the old strathspey tune, 'The Reel of Tullochgorum.'" Jeannie Robertson's version is not in Cant (Travellers' dialect). Porter and Gower also point out that in spite of several references in common (Jimmie Drummond's "going choring" and being in jail), Jeannie's "Young Jimmie Drummond" is distinct from versions of the "Choring Song" (McCST097) and carries a different melody. Roud lists variants by Jeannie in two places, lumping them with other songs: Roud #2157 and #2506. - DGE
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