Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, That's an Irish Lullaby

DESCRIPTION: The singer remembers a quiet, peaceful home and the lullaby his mother sang: "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... That's an Irish lullaby."
AUTHOR: James Royce Shannon
EARLIEST DATE: 1913 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: nonballad lullaby
FOUND IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Fuld-BookOfWorldFamousMusic, p. 585, "Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, That's an Irish Lullaby"
DT, LULLBY
RECORDINGS:
Betty Deveraux, "Irish Lullaby" (on MUNFLA/Leach)
SAME TUNE:
Study Oft on Sunday (Pankake/Pankake-PrairieHomeCompanionFolkSongBook, p. 98)
NOTES [108 words]: This, obviously, is not a folk song -- and it's not a lullaby! (It contains one, but there is a song around it.) But people think it's a folk song, so here it is....
Edward Foote Gardner, Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century: Volume I -- Chart Detail & Encyclopedia 1900-1949, Paragon House, 2000, p. 306, estimates that this was the eighteenth most popular song in America in 1914, peaking at #10 in March 1914 (#1 for the year being, believe it or not, Grant Clarke, Edgar Leslie, and Maurice Abrahams's "He'd Have to Get Under, Get Out and Get Under, To Fix Up His Automobile"); p. 473 says it again hit the charts at #13 in December 1944. - RBW
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