'Banjara' Bangru folk song

A woman sings of a nomad with a black-thread (dorra) around his neck .

The banjara (nomad) has a black thread around his neck,

A black thread like a lover’s, like a tall, fair youth.

He walks with long, graceful strides, like a banjara’s woman,

Seen once, then never seen again - that’s the way of a banjara’s woman.

Don’t go, my dear husband, I feel like a forsaken one,

Life feels empty without messages or news from my beloved.