A touching air from 1913.
Also known as “That’s An Irish Lullaby”.
Words and music by J. R. Shannon.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
- Over in Killarney, many years ago
Me Mither sang a song to me, in tones so sweet and low
Just a simple little ditty, in her good ould Irish way
And I’d give the world if she could sing that song to me this day
Chorus
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
Sung here by Fred Feild: