Tim Finnegan's Wake-The Clancy Brothers

[ti:Tim Finnegan's Wake] [ar:The Clancy Brothers] [al:Irish Drinking Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Tim Finnegan's Wake - The Clancy Brothers [01:00.28]Tim finnegan lived in watling street [01:03.88]A gentle irishman mighty odd [01:06.06]He'd a beautiful brogue so rich and sweet [01:08.04]To rise in the world he carried a hod [01:10.19]See he'd sort of a tipplin' way [01:12.05]With love for the liquor poor tim was born [01:13.96]To help him a man with his work each day [01:16.05]He'd a drop of the craythin' every morn [01:18.06]Whack fol de dah [01:18.89]Now dance to your partner [01:20.00]Welt the floor your trotters shake [01:21.50] [01:22.16]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun [01:24.87]At finnegan's wake [01:25.81]One morning tim got rather full [01:27.61]His head felt heavy which made him shake [01:29.90]Fell from a ladder and he broke his skull [01:31.87]They carried him home his corpse to wake [01:33.26] [01:33.79]Rolled him up in a nice clean sheet [01:35.85]And laid him out upon the bed [01:37.48]A gallon of whiskey at his feet [01:39.65]And a bottle of porter at his head [01:41.64]Whack fol de dah [01:42.54]Now dance to your partner [01:43.65]Welt the floor your trotters shake [01:45.79]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun [01:48.43]At finnegan's wake [01:49.27]His friends assembled at the wake [01:51.21]And misses finnegan called for lunch [01:53.40]First she brought in tea and cake [01:55.30]Then pipes tobacco and whiskey punch [01:57.34]Biddy o'brien began to cry [01:59.27]Such a nice clean corpse did you ever see [02:01.17] [02:01.69]Tim me boy yadda hoy dida ho yada [02:03.58]Arrah hold your gobâ said patty megee [02:05.61]Whack fol de dah [02:06.62]Now dance to your partner [02:07.70]Welt the floor your trotters shake [02:09.66]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun [02:12.35]At finnegan's wake [02:13.21]Then o'connor took up the job [02:15.21]Arrah biddy says she ye're wrong I'm sure [02:17.32]Biddy then gave her a belt on the gob [02:19.26]And left her sprawling on the floor [02:21.21]There the war did soon engage [02:23.26]Woman to woman and man to man [02:25.08]Shillelah law was all the rage [02:27.17]An a row and a ruction soon began [02:28.68] [02:29.26]Whack fol de dah [02:30.15]Now dance to your partner [02:31.26]Welt the floor your trotters shake [02:33.18]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun [02:35.84]At finnegan's wake [02:36.96]Then mickey maloney raised his head [02:38.81]When a bottle of whiskey flew at him [02:40.85]It missed him falling on the bed [02:42.61]The liquor scattered over tim [02:44.11] [02:45.84]Tim revives see how he rises [02:47.51] [02:48.97]Timothy rising from the bed [02:50.42] [02:51.58]Then whirl your whiskey around [02:53.03]Like blazes thanum o'n dhoul [02:54.33]Do ye think I'm dead [02:55.43] [02:55.99]Whack fol de dah [02:56.75]Now dance to your partner [02:57.86]Welt the floor your trotters shake [02:59.80]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun [03:02.49]At finnegan's wake