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Thread #19855   Message #2475007
Posted By: Valmai Goodyear
24-Oct-08 - 12:58 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: A Gay Caballero (Frank Crumit, L Klein)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Gay Caballero
The magnificent Scots Traveller singer Stanley Robertson recently sang a Scots dialect version of this at the Royal Oak folk club in Lewes. Every line had to rhyme with 'wee stumpie'.

I've also heard a rugby-style (Bonfire) version in which the Gay Caballero calls his wedding tackle 'Miralto Maree'. I would imagine this is a distortion of the Spanish for 'my old friend'. It has a chorus to the tune of 'Cielito Lindo' and goes,

Ay ay ay ay,
Si, si, Senora,
Belinda, Belinda, she p****d from the window
All over my new sombrero.

Valmai (Lewes)