Tigaree Torum Orum
Language: English
There was a wise old woman and her story I will tell, She loved her husband dearly and another man just as well. With my tigaree torum orum and my torum orum me And my tigaree torum orum and the blind man he can see. Now she went into the doctor's shop some medicine for to buy She asked the doctor kindly what would close her old man's eye Now get for him some marrow bones and make him suck them all And when he has the last one sucked, he cannot see you at all. Now the doctor sent for this old man and told him what she spoke He thanked the doctor kindly and he said he'd played the joke. Now she got for him some marrow bones and she made him suck them all and when he had the last one sucked, he couldn't see her at all.
Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Herbert Hughes (1882 - 1937), "Tigaree Torum Orum" [voice and piano], arrangement of an Irish folksong [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Anne Evans
This text was added to the website: 2009-02-07
Line count: 12
Word count: 151