tura-lura

Interjection

 * 1)  A filler lyric (vocables).
 * 2) * 1913, James Royce Shannon, “Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral”, “That’s an Irish Lullaby”, M.Witmark & Sons, New York:
 * Over in Killarney, many years ago / My Mother 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
 * 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
 * 1) * 1982 June, unattributed/traditional, “Jug of Punch”, Soodlum's Irish Ballad Book, Oak Publications, ISBN 9781783235278, unpaged:
 * Tur-a-lur-a-la, tur-a-lur-a-lae / A small bird sat on an ivy branch, and the song he sang was a Jug of Punch
 * 1) * 1982 June 25, Kevin Rowland, “Come On Eileen”, Too-Rye-Ay, Mercury Records:
 * Toora loora toora loo rye ay / And we can sing just like our fathers
 * Toora loora toora loo rye ay / And you’ll hum this toon forever
 * Toora loora toora loo rye ay / And we can sing just like our fathers
 * Toora loora toora loo rye ay / And you’ll hum this toon forever

Noun

 * 1) The Irish lyric.
 * 2) * 1945 June, Daphne Alloway McVicker, “I Weep for You”, part 1 of 3, Cosmopolitan, Hearst’s International, volume 119, page 103:
 * Carole was gracious. “You don’t do so badly. They tell me Mick Kelly’s throwing too-ra-loo-ras in your direction.”
 * “Mick’s swell,” Betsy agreed. “I like him a lot. He’s got ideas.”
 * “Well, don’t let him get away with them.” Carol’s eyebrows arched.
 * 1) * 1998, Richard McKenzie, Turn Left at the Black Cow, Roberts Rinehart, page 273:
 * Ava thinks I’m miffed because she didn’t use my suggestion of a shamrock garland so I could make a tura lura lei, but she’ll be sorry comes the day when someone else cashes in on the idea.
 * 1) * 2003, Henri Godard, Fable for another time, translation of Férie pour une autre fois (1952), University of Nebraska Press, ISBN 9780803264243, page 67:
 * I heard a thing or two coming from that place, let me tell you! Tura-luras and the blood running high! and the squawks of the seagulls during the storms...
 * 1) * 2013 October, Victor Hugo, “Paris Atomized”, Les Miserables, Penguin, section 3, unpaged:
 * This creaturehisses and sings, applauds and hoots, tempers Hallelujah with turalura, chants all sorts of rhythms from De Profundis to the Chie-en-lit
 * 1) * 2013 October, Victor Hugo, “Paris Atomized”, Les Miserables, Penguin, section 3, unpaged:
 * This creaturehisses and sings, applauds and hoots, tempers Hallelujah with turalura, chants all sorts of rhythms from De Profundis to the Chie-en-lit
 * This creaturehisses and sings, applauds and hoots, tempers Hallelujah with turalura, chants all sorts of rhythms from De Profundis to the Chie-en-lit