Finnegan's Wake-Waxy Brothers

[ti:Finnegan's Wake] [ar:Waxy Brothers] [al:The Worlds Greatest St Patricks Day Album - The Only Irish Songs Album You'll Ever Need - Plus Irish Ringtones] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Finnegan's Wake - Waxy Brothers [00:02.51]Tim Finnegan lived in watling street [00:06.60]A gentle Irishman mighty odd [00:09.77] [00:10.91]He'd a beautiful brogue so rich and sweet [00:13.95] [00:14.86]To rise in the world [00:16.36]He carried a hod [00:17.91] [00:19.46]He'd see a sort of a tipplin' way [00:22.51] [00:23.25]With love for the liquor poor Tim was born [00:26.65] [00:28.07]To help him on with his work each day [00:31.46] [00:32.47]He'd a drop of the craythur every morn [00:35.53]Whack fol de dah [00:36.42]Now dance to your partner [00:38.01]Welt the floor [00:38.91]Our trotters shake [00:40.57]Wasn't it the truth they told [00:42.90]Ye lots of fun [00:44.00]At Finnegan's wake [00:45.32] [00:48.01]One morning Tim got rather full [00:50.40]His head felt heavy which made him shake [00:52.97]Fell from a ladder and he broke his skull [00:55.37]They carried him home his corpse to wake [00:58.08]Rolled him up in a nice clean sheet [01:00.46]And laid him out upon the bed [01:02.97]And a bottle of porter at his feet [01:05.28]A gallon of whiskey at his head [01:07.96]Whack fol de dah [01:09.10]Now dance to your partner [01:10.61]Welt the floor [01:11.70]Your trotters shake [01:12.92]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun [01:16.31]At Finnegan's wake [01:17.57] [01:20.33]His friends assembled at the wake [01:22.71]And misses Finnegan called for lunch [01:25.34]First she brought in tea and cake [01:27.72]Then pipes tobacco and whiskey punch [01:30.33]Biddy O'Brien began to cry [01:32.46]Such a nice clean corpse [01:33.84]Did you ever see [01:35.33]Tim mavourneen why did you die [01:37.69]Arrah hold your gob [01:38.71]Said Patty Megee [01:40.29]Whack fol de dah [01:41.43]Now dance to your partner [01:42.71]Welt the floor [01:43.58]Your trotters shake [01:45.18]Wasn't it the truth [01:46.65]They told ye lots of fun [01:48.53]At Finnegan's wake [01:49.82] [01:51.85]Then Maggie O'Connor took up the job [01:54.62]Arrah biddy says she ye're wrong I'm sure [01:57.09]Biddy then gave her a belt on the gob [01:59.31]And left her sprawling on the floor [02:01.98]There the war did soon engage [02:04.17]Woman to woman and man to man [02:06.75]Shillelah law was all the rage [02:09.12]An a row and a ruction soon began [02:11.57]Whack fol de dah [02:12.64]Now dance to your partner [02:14.10]Welt the floor [02:15.14]Your trotters shake [02:16.56]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun [02:19.87]At Finnegan's wake [02:21.28] [02:23.02]Then Mickey Maloney raised his head [02:25.92] [02:26.47]When a bottle of whiskey flew at him [02:28.89] [02:29.93]It missed him falling on the bed [02:32.46] [02:33.29]The liquor scattered over Tim [02:36.25] [02:38.03]Tim revives see how he rises [02:41.71]Timothy rising from the bed [02:44.46] [02:45.45]Then Whirl your whiskey around [02:47.71]Like blazes Thanum an Dhul [02:49.24]Do ye think I'm dead [02:51.15]Whack fol de dah [02:52.16]Now dance to your partner [02:53.46]Welt the floor your trotters shake [02:55.87]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun [02:59.18]At Finnegan's wake