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Thread #26115   Message #311720
Posted By: Joe Offer
04-Oct-00 - 03:57 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: How Are Things in Glocca Morra? (Harburg)
Subject: ADD: How Are Things in Glocca Morra?
Well, you didn't ask for them, but let me post the lyrics "Glocca" and "Morra" were Gaelic words combined by songwriter Harburg to name an imaginary place. Click here for more information.
-Joe Offer-
How Are Things in Glocca Morra
(words by E.Y. Harburg; music by Burton Lane, 1946)

- From "Finian's Rainbow"

I hear a bird, Londonderry bird,
It well may be he's bringing me a cheering word.
I hear a breeze, a River Shannon breeze,
It well may be it's followed me across the seas.
Then tell me please:
How are things in Glocca Morra?
Is that little brook still leaping there?
Does it still run down to Donny cove?
Through Killybegs, Kilkerry and Kildare?
How are things in Glocca Mora?
Is that willow tree still weeping there?
Does that lassie with the twinklin' eye
Come smilin' by and does she walk away,
Sad and dreamy there not to see me there?
So I ask each weepin' willow and each brook along the way,
And each lass that comes a-sighin' Too ra lay
How are things in Glocca Morra this fine day?
This deeply flawed rendition stolen from Lyrics World. Ferrara posted the correct lyrics below.
-Joe Offer-