Toora Loora Loora

Album: Unreleased Songs

A Meat Thunderstick recording of the traditional Irish lullaby "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral" (That's an Irish Lullaby), written by 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

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-hugging me
As when she held me then.
And I hear her voice a-hummin' to me as in the days of yore,
when she used to rock me fast asleep outside the cabin door.

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.