Here you are FINNEGAN's WAKE: FINNEGAN'S WAKE Ah Tim Finnegan lived in Watkins Street A gentleman Irish might odd He had a broad brogue rich and sweet And to rise in the world he carried a hod Oh but Tim had a bit of a tippler's way With a lump of liquor he was born And to send the monies way each day He'd drop of the creator every morn Chorus Whack for the dah will you dance to your partners Around the floor your trotters shake Isn't it the truth I told you Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake No one morning Tim was rather full His head felt heavy which made him shake He fell of the ladder and he broke his skull Then they carried him home his corpse to wake They laid him out upon the bed With a bundle of whiskey at his feet And a barrell of porter at his head Chorus And his friend assembled at the wake And Mrs Finnegan called for lunch Well first she brought them tay and cake Then piped tobacco and brandy punch The widow Malone began to cry Oh such lovely corpse did ye's ever see Musha Tim, mavourneen why did you die? Will you hold your gob said Molly Magee Chorus Ah well Mary Murphy took up the job Ah Biddie, says she, You're wrong I'm sure Well Biddie fetched her a belt in the gob And left her sprawling on the floor And a civil war did then engage 'Twas woman to woman and man to man Sure laly law was all the rage And a row and eruption it soon began Chorus Ah Tim Moloney ducked his head When a bottle of whiskey flew at him He ducked and landing on the bed The Whiskey scatters over Tim Ah, be daddy a boys and see how he rises Tim Finnegan risin in the bed Saying twirl your whiskey around like blazes By the thundering Jaysus do you think I'm dead Chorus How is the ould one? ... - Game ball ... (Recorded by The Dubliners)
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