gaberlunzie

Gaberlunzie are a Scottish folk duo.

"A gaberlunzie is a license to beg, Sassenach," Jamie explained.

I didn't bother suggesting that we allow Laoghaire to put in for a gaberlunzie badge and go begging through the parish.

'Gaberlunzie tokens.'

Later at the same meeting she carried 116 pounds in a handicap race and finished second, beaten three-quarters of a length by Gaberlunzie, a four-year-old colt carrying 119.

Fitt, Matthew (2002) Gaberlunzie Joe (Itchy Coo Series).

Gordon Menzies of the folk band Gaberlunzie wrote a well known song called "The Kishorn Commandos", the chorus to which is:

How I wish Geordie would come along with that tea - why, Geordie, put the tray down here, ye thrawn, ill-feckit gaberlunzie.'

There are a few Scottish items - "The Broom of Cowdenknowes", "Bessy Bell ands Mary Gray", "Muirland Willie" and "The Gaberlunzie Man".

For the next ten years he played in two more bands, The Skerries and The Other Half, and was in demand as a session musician for the likes of Hamish Imlach, Gaberlunzie or Watt Nicoll.

This has now become an annual event and has seen performances by numerous well-known artists including Phil Cunningham & Aly Bain, Karen Matheson, Gaberlunzie and Karine Polwart as well as performances from local island musicians.

The song is most famously recorded by Alastair McDonald, for his album Scottish Lauglines, but it has been recorded a few times, for example by the Scottish band Gaberlunzie or by the Scottish Folk group The Wherries.

And so in his travels he came one day to the New Victory Theater in the heart of Times Square, once the haunt of the intrusive gaberlunzie, and when he came, he brought with him his retelling of an old Russian tale, "The Frog Bride."