Lyr Req: An Irish folk song

Subject: An Irish folk song
From:
Date: 13 Nov 98 - 06:13 AM

I need to find the words to an Irish folk song. The one with "Tu ra lu ra lu" I think it is called Irish Lulabye

Subject: RE: An Irish folk song
From: Ralph Butts
Date: 13 Nov 98 - 06:22 AM

See our earlier thread at:

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.CFM?threadID=639

.....Tiger

Subject: RE: An Irish folk song
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 13 Nov 98 - 10:41 AM

It's in the DT database. Search for [Irish Lull*] or [Irish Lullaby] if you're confident of your (and our) spelling.

And it's hardly a folk song.

Subject: RE: An Irish folk song
From: Virginia Ann Ludwig
Date: 13 Nov 98 - 08:25 PM

In the movie, The Ghost and the Darkness, Val Kilmer plays the part of Col. John H. Patterson, an Irishman. As he and Michael Douglas, the professional hunter Remington, are climbing through some hills in search of man-eating lions, Reminton hums/sings under his breath: Oh, Johnny Boy, hmmmm, hmmm, Oh, Johnny Boy.

There were only a few bars (or whatever) hummed, but I'm sure that was an Irish folksong we had to learn in grade school. Could you help me get more information on this ballad? Someone said it was an anti-war song, but I think that's incorrect. I think they're thinking about When Johnny Comes Marching Home, Hurrah, Hurrah, which is an anti-war song from our own Civil War.

Thanks

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Click for "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye"

Subject: RE: An Irish folk song
From: Ewan McV
Date: 14 Nov 98 - 03:07 AM

I have very mixed feelings about such questions as this one. The continuing need to refer people back to the database may make me squirm but the responses are usually great fun and highly informative.

Subject: RE: An Irish folk song
From: Barbara
Date: 14 Nov 98 - 08:48 AM

Yes, Virginia, there is a Danny Boy.
Try putting that in brackets, like this [Danny Boy] in the box upper right, and see if that ian't the song you want. (The name may have changed in the movie.)

Subject: RE: An Irish folk song
From:
Date: 14 Nov 98 - 05:12 PM

oh dany boy the pipes the pipes are calling

Subject: RE: An Irish folk song
From: Virginia
Date: 14 Nov 98 - 08:19 PM

Thanks so much, Barbara. That was it, okay. No wonder I couldn't find it under "Johnny Boy".

Now that I've located two of them, it would be interesting to know the history behind each of them. One is pagan, and the other refers to saying an "Ave". It will give me something to do as soon as school is out.

Thanks, again.

Subject: RE: An Irish folk song
From: Bruce O.
Date: 15 Nov 98 - 02:25 PM

History of "Danny Boy" is at www.standingstones.com/dannyboy.html
An ABC of "Londonderry Air" from George Petrie's original publication of it is on my website, along with some early versions of the related "Young Man's Dream" and the text of it and Ann Geddes Gilchrist's reconstructed "Londonderry Air". See Scarce Songs file at: www.erols.com/olsonw

Subject: RE: An Irish folk song
From: Roddy Macdonald
Date: 24 Nov 98 - 04:05 PM

The song you are looking for may be "Reconciliation" by Alias John Kavanagh. It is written as an allegorical unrequited love song; the parties being the North & South of Ireland. I'm sorry, but I don't have the lyrics.

Subject: RE: An Irish folk song
From: Frank Howe
Date: 24 Nov 98 - 04:43 PM

here ya go -

TOO-RA-LOO-RA-LOO-RAL

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 OLD IRISH WAY AND I'D GIVE THE WORLD IF SHE COULD SING THAT SONG TO ME TODAY

TOO RA LOO RA LOO RA, TOO RA LOO RA LIE TOO RA LOO RA LOO RA, HUSH NOW DON'T YOU CRY TOO RA LOO RA LOO RA. TOO RA LOO RA LIE TOO RA LOO RA LOO RA, THAT'S AN IRISH LULLABY

OFF 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

TOO RA LOO RA LOO RA, TOO RA LOO RA LIE TOO RA LOO RA LOO RA, HUSH NOW DON'T YOU CRY TOO RA LOO RA LOO RA, TOO RA LOO RA LIE TOO RA LOO RA LOO RA, THAT'S AN IRISH LULLABY

Subject: RE: Reconciliation
From: Roddy K Macdonald
Date: 25 Nov 98 - 01:55 PM

Apologies for the mistake above! 'Reconciliation' is by 'Alias' Ron Kavana.