is there a latin phrase pronounced "traloo tralay"?

[uncle ray]

or something to do with labor/unions?

thanks.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Sounds like an Irish lullaby to me

[maddiejoan]

2. Do you mean Callooh! Callay!?

It's from the Jabberwocky poem in "Alice Through The Looking Glass"


`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
  Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
  And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
  The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
  The frumious Bandersnatch!"


He took his vorpal sword in hand:
  Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
  And stood awhile in thought.


And, as in uffish thought he stood,
  The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
  And burbled as it came!


One, two! One, two! And through and through
  The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
  He went galumphing back.


"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
  Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
  He chortled in his joy.

[redqueen]

4. That's what I first thought of, too... n/t

[uncle ray]

5. hmm, that could be it

it's in a song lyric i'm trying to decipher. i think there was another alice reference on the album, and the singer likes to change the pronounciation of words for better rhyme.

it's Clutch's new album Robot hive/Exodus. one blatant war metaphor, i think: "while you were lighting roman candles on that yellowcake, they shook you down"

[Not_Giving_Up]

3. I took Latin in High School

The only thing I remember is how to say the Pledge in Latin...and a few word bases. Sorry, I can't help you.