tirra-lirra

The teller seemed to have been listening to the voice of Fate, and whether, Guinevere swayed the bridle-rein, or Elaine's web flew out and floated wide, or Lancelot sang tirra-lirra by the river, it was asserted with the positiveness of a Hebrew chronicle, which we do not question because it is history.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various

There was about Miss Gina Berg, whose voice could soar to the tirra-lirra of a lark and then deepen to mezzo, something of the actual slimness of the poor, maligned Elsa so long buried beneath the buxomness of divas.

Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Fannie Hurst 1928

But it knew also that it would unwearyingly ascend in the fire, singing its "tirra-lirra" which tells of the light of the heavens to those who are on earth below.

Jean-Christophe Journey's End Romain Rolland 1905