My memory, fortified by my reference
works tells me that the original song was written by that well known personage
Anon.
The Title of the work was:
Abdul the Bulbul Amir
The Russian protagonist was
named:
Ivan Petruski Skavar
(For the ornithological followers of this
exchange)
Bulbul = Nightingale in Persian
(Luscinia golzii)
Michael
Jefferson
