Lyr Req: Irish Lullaby NOT too ra - Bing Crosby

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Irish Lullaby NOT too ra - Bing Crosby
From: GUEST,mt
Date: 10 Feb 03 - 07:03 PM

Thanks for the help so far and the suggestions, I only heard the tune at a concert two and a half years ago and a few days later on the anniversary of my father's death, I found myself singing along the tune in my head then managed to patch in some of the words.I had not heard it since chilhood around thirty odd years ago.It was sung at a concert by a Polish/Italian/Canadian folksinger and honorary hobo called Rik Palieri. He was the one who alerted me to the Hobos lullaby and it has annoyed me ever since to try and find the words I knew as a child. It is the tune just before the battle mother which also must be originally older or taken over pre civil war.If anyone has more suggestions I'd be glad to hear them.
Thanks again m.t.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Irish Lullaby NOT too ra - Bing Crosby
From: weerover
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 02:08 AM

The song is actually a parody of an American song by Goebbel(sp?) Reeves called "Hobo's Lullaby"

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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Irish Lullaby NOT too ra - Bing Crosby
From: GUEST,m t
Date: 27 Jan 03 - 07:34 AM

Thanks for the help- yes the provos lullaby is the closest in words, but I take it that's a parody on the original given that my dad was born before 1920's and my grandmother before 1880's which is probably where he heard it or as a child at some family thing "over by".

So here it is with a teeny bit more pieced together

Go to sleep my little   (baby, laddie ......)
?While the time goes drifting by
Your Mother ..................
That's an Irish Lullaby

Any blanks or corrections gratefully received.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Irish Lullaby NOT too ra - Bing Crosby
From: weerover
Date: 25 Jan 03 - 09:30 AM

There is a song by this name in Sparling's "Irish Minstrelsy", which begins "I'll put you myself, my baby, to slumber...", but the lyrics you give suggest an Irish rebel song entitled "Provo's Lullaby".

wr

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Irish Lullaby NOT too ra - Bing Crosby
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 25 Jan 03 - 03:17 AM

This is as close as I can come to your song. I have no lyrics but if you go to...this page you can listen to a song called Irish lullaby, and maybe it will be the song.(It starts right anyway)
Peace, Rustic

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Irish Lullaby NOT too ra - Bing Crosby
From: leprechaun
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 06:27 AM

It rings a bell, but I haven't found it yet either.

Subject: Lyr Req: Irish Lullaby NOT too ra - Bing Crosby
From: GUEST,m t
Date: 23 Jan 03 - 08:59 AM

Does anyone know the following, it starts

Go to sleep and ends that's an Irish lullaby.
It was sung to just before the battle mother or Hobos lullaby melody.
It was sung by my father and maybe made up but don't think so.Others have suggested Isle of Innisfree but it is not that.Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!