Finnegan's Wake-Waxies Dargle

[ti:Finnegan's Wake] [ar:Countdown Singers] [al:12 Best Irish Sing-a-long Favorites] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Finnegan's Wake - Waxies Dargle [00:02.34]Ah Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin' Street [00:06.42]A gentleman Irish mighty odd [00:10.39]Well he had a tongue both rich and sweet [00:14.58]An' to rise in the world he carried a hod [00:19.13]Ah but Tim had a sort of a tipplin' way [00:22.98]With the love of the liquor he was born [00:27.81]An' to send him on his way each day [00:32.29]He'd a drop of the craythur every morn [00:35.38]Whack fol the dah will ya dance to yer partner [00:37.79]Around the flure yer trotters shake [00:40.51]Wasn't it the truth I told you [00:43.11]Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake [00:45.89] [00:47.67]One morning Tim was rather full [00:50.43]His head felt heavy which made him shake [00:52.90]He fell off the ladder and he broke his skull [00:55.37]And they carried him home his corpse to wake [00:57.65]Well they rolled him up in a nice clean sheet [01:00.35]And they laid him out upon the bed [01:02.81]With a bottle of whiskey at his feet [01:05.35]And a barrel of porter at his head [01:07.71]Whack fol the dah will ya dance to yer partner [01:10.18]Around the flure yer trotters shake [01:12.81]Wasn't it the truth I told you [01:15.15]Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake [01:17.59] [01:20.12]Well his friends assembled at the wake [01:22.62]And Mrs Finnegan called for lunch [01:25.40]Well first they brought in tay and cake [01:27.68]Then pipes tobacco and brandy punch [01:30.16]Then the widow Malone began to cry [01:32.59]"Such a lovely corpse did you ever see [01:35.09]Arrah Tim avourneen why did you die " [01:37.61]"Will ye hould your gob " said Molly McGee [01:40.02]Whack fol the dah will ya dance to yer partner [01:42.46]Around the flure yer trotters shake [01:44.97]Wasn't it the truth I told you [01:47.63]Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake [01:49.76] [01:51.65]Well Mary O'Connor took up the job [01:54.42]"Biddy" says she "you're wrong I'm sure" [01:56.74]Well Biddy gave her a belt in the gob [01:59.43]And left her sprawling on the floor [02:01.74]Well civil war did then engage [02:03.79]T'was woman to woman and man to man [02:06.49]Shillelagh law was all the rage [02:08.95]And a row and a ruction soon began [02:11.36]Whack fol the dah will ya dance to yer partner [02:13.93]Around the flure yer trotters shake [02:16.45]Wasn't it the truth I told you [02:18.69]Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake [02:21.41] [02:22.88]Well Tim Maloney raised his head [02:26.24]When a bottle of whiskey flew at him [02:29.49]He ducked and landing on the bed [02:33.06]The whiskey scattered over Tim [02:37.68]Bedad he revives see how he rises [02:41.50]Tim Finnegan rising in the bed [02:45.23]Saying "Whittle your whiskey around like blazes [02:48.34]T'underin' Jaysus do ye think I'm dead " [02:50.95]Whack fol the dah will ya dance to yer partner [02:53.40]Around the flure yer trotters shake [02:55.73]Wasn't it the truth I told you [02:58.23]Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake