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    Can Anyone Help with a Short Irish Lullaby?

    Looking for a Song Sung to Babies in Ireland about That Shirt Me Mother Made for Me

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    Can Anyone Help with a Short Irish Lullaby?

    Sunday, November 9th, 2008

    I received this email today…

    I am desperately searching for any words to any short Irish lullaby. A friend of my is pregnant and I want to put the lullaby on fabric for her as a baby shower present. Thank you so much for your time.

    I asked my colleague, Monique, in France, if she had any suggestions. She wrote:

    Perhaps she can write just one verse of one of these lullabies below…

    Too ra loo ra loo or…
    The Connemara Cradle Song or…

    Irish Lullaby

    I’d rock my own sweet childie to rest
    In a cradle of gold, on a bough of the willow,
    To the sho-hen sho of the wind of the west
    And the lull-a-lo of the soft sea billow.
    Sleep, baby dear,
    Sleep without fear,
    Mother is here beside your pillow.
    Sleep, baby dear,
    Sleep without fear,
    Mother is here beside your pillow.

    I’d put my own sweet childie to sleep
    In a silver boat on the beautiful river,
    Where a sho-heen whisper the white cascades,
    And a lull-a-lo the green flags shiver.
    Sleep, baby dear,
    Sleep without fear,
    Mother is here with you for ever.
    Sleep, baby dear,
    Sleep without fear,
    Mother is here with you for ever.

    Lull-a-lo to the rise and fall
    Of mother’s bosom ’tis sleep has bound you,
    And O, my child, what cosier nest for rosier rest
    could love have found you?
    Sleep, baby dear,
    Sleep without fear,
    Mother’s two arms are clasped around you.
    Sleep, baby dear,
    Sleep without fear,
    Mother’s two arms are clasped around you.

    If anyone can suggest any other Irish lullabies, pease let us know in the comments below.

    Many thanks to Monique Palomares of Mama Lisa’s World en français for her suggestions!

    -Lisa

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    Looking for a Song Sung to Babies in Ireland about That Shirt Me Mother Made for Me

    Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

    Mary wrote me looking for the full lyrics to an Irush lullaby:

    My sister-in-law is trying to find a lullaby sung to her as a child but she doesn’t know the title. She has a very new little grandson…

    I remember the day that I was born
    T’was a frosty winter morn
    The doctor said I was a chubby chap
    And when the nurse she put me on her lap
    She washed me all over I remember
    And powdered me all up you see
    Then she put me in the cradle by the fender in that little shirt
    me mother made for me.

    Anything you can help us with would be appreciated.

    Thanks,

    Mary Cunningham

    If anyone knows more lyrics to this lullaby, or the name of it, please comment below.

    Thanks!

    Lisa

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