The song is a variant of the song No. 1980.TU.15, I also recorded it from other informants in order to study the way texts of personal songs are handed down. It was authored by Anna Ivanovna Saltykova, a woman from Čueli village (śŭiʌ kǫrt) in the 1940s. For further data, see 1980.TU.15. If we look at the way personal songs are handed down, one very interesting phenomenon is that the most stable element in the text is not the plot but the formulas from which the author composes the song. The filler word type elements within formulas show some degree of variation. An interesting feature of the present song is that with the plot being strongly corrupted, the singer left out the exact parts that form the basis of the whole story: the heroine is longing for her husband who is away, so she reports sick, is sent to a hospital for examination, and while the formulas are varied at the level of words, all the stresses are on the same syllables as in the song 1980.TU.15.