Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral

Lyrics

(James Royce Shannon, 1913)

Over in Killarney, many years ago
My mother sang a song to me in tones so sweet and low,
Just a simple little ditty, in her good old Irish way,
And I’d give the world if she could sing that song to me this day.

Refrain
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral,
Too-ra-loo-ra-li,
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral,
Hush now don’t you cry!
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral,
Too-ra-loo-ra-li,
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral,
That’s an Irish lullaby.

Oft, in dreams I wander to that cot again,
I feel her arms a huggin’ me as when she held me then.
And I hear her voice a hummin’ to me as in days of yore,
When she used to rock me fast asleep outside the cabin door. (Refrain)

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