Tiritomba

DESCRIPTION: Italian song made into English: "When the mountain top through purple mist is glowing... Then must I be on my way." "Tiritomba, Tiritomba, All the world is calling, Calling to me so." The singer prepares to travel
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1946 (Sanders-SingHighSingLow)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage travel campsong
FOUND IN:
REFERENCES (5 citations):
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, pp. 130, 332, 467, "Tiritomba" (notes only)
Sanders-SingHighSingLow, pp. 44-45, "Tiritomba" (1 text, 1 tune)
Zander/Klusmann-CampSongsNThings, p. 68, "Tiritomba" (1 text, 1 tune)
SongsOfManyNations, "Tiritomba" (1 text, 1 tune) (CC edition, p. 46)
ADDITIONAL: (no author listed), _Songs of Many Nations_, Cooperative Recreation Service, Inc., undated 96 page edition (1962?), p. 46, "Tiritomba" (1 text, 1 tune)
SAME TUNE:
Comrade Song/Tiritomba (words by Fannie R. Buchanan) ("When the lark to greet the sun is gaily winging") (National-4HClubSongBook, p. 39)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
Tira Tomba
NOTES [56 words]: Internet sources claim this is from the eighteenth century. It seems to have been fairly popular in Italian, inspiring the English translation. Apparently there was a version in some edition of The Fireside Book of Folk Songs, but not the edition I have. Sanders-SingHighSingLow had it from "Song and Chorus Book, Concord Series #16."- RBW
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