Finnegan's Wake-The Malarkey Brothers

[ti:Finnegan's Wake] [ar:The Malarkey Brothers] [al:Get Your Irish Up!] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Finnegan's Wake - The Malarkey Brothers [00:00.35]Written by：Ciaran Padraig Maire Bourke/Ronald Joseph Drew/Barney Mckenna/John Edmund Sheahan/Luke Kelly [00:00.71]Tim Finnegan lived in watling street [00:03.37]A gentle Irishman mighty odd [00:05.43]He'd a beautiful brogue so rich and sweet [00:07.29]To rise in the world he carried a hod [00:09.47]See he'd sort of a tipplin' way [00:11.28]With love for the liquor poor Tim was born [00:13.38]To help him on with his work each day [00:15.33]He'd a drop of the craythur every morn' [00:17.21]Whack fol de dah [00:18.10]Now dance to your partner [00:19.26]Welt the floor your trotters shake [00:21.24]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun [00:23.99]At Finnegan's wake [00:25.30]Whack fol de dah [00:26.13]Now dance to your partner [00:27.15]Welt the floor your trotters shake [00:29.05]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun [00:31.84]At Finnegan's wake [00:32.75] [00:33.88]One morning Tim got rather full [00:36.49] [00:37.02]His head felt heavy which made him shake [00:39.05] [00:39.98]He fell from a ladder and he broke his skull [00:42.88]And they carried him home his corpse to wake [00:44.95] [00:45.89]He rolled him up in a nice clean sheet [00:48.94]And he laid him out upon the bed [00:51.16] [00:52.09]A gallon of whiskey at his feet [00:53.77] [00:54.48]And a bottle of porter at his head [00:56.63]Whack fol de dah [00:57.50]Now dance to your partner [00:58.62]Welt the floor your trotters shake [01:00.46]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun [01:03.25]At Finnegan's wake [01:04.51]Whack fol de dah [01:05.39]Now dance to your partner [01:06.48]Welt the floor your trotters shake [01:08.43]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun [01:11.07]At Finnegan's wake [01:12.03] [01:13.20]His friends assembled at the wake [01:15.24] [01:15.91]And misses Finnegan called for lunch [01:17.83] [01:18.91]First she brought in tea and cake [01:21.17]Then pipes tobacco and whiskey punch [01:23.11] [01:24.44]Biddy O'Brien began to cry [01:26.22] [01:26.86]Such a nice clean corpse did you ever see [01:29.41] [01:30.25]Tim mavourneen why did you die [01:32.08]Arrah hold your gob said Patty Megee [01:34.03]Whack fol de dah [01:35.01]Now dance to your partner [01:36.07]Welt the floor your trotters shake [01:37.88]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun [01:40.71]At Finnegan's wake [01:41.82]Whack fol de dah [01:42.95]Now dance to your partner [01:44.06]Welt the floor your trotters shake [01:45.81]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun [01:48.53]At Finnegan's wake [01:49.41] [01:50.41]Then Maggie O'Connor took up the job [01:52.18] [01:52.81]Arrah biddy says she ye're wrong I'm sure [01:55.43] [01:56.10]Biddy then gave her a belt on the gob [01:57.85]And left her sprawling on the floor [02:00.09] [02:01.05]There the war did soon engage [02:03.55] [02:04.22]Woman to woman and man to man [02:05.96] [02:06.76]Shillelah law was all the rage [02:08.61] [02:09.33]An a row and a ruction soon began [02:11.34]Whack fol de dah [02:12.28]Now dance to your partner [02:13.37]Welt the floor your trotters shake [02:15.27]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun [02:17.98]At Finnegan's wake [02:19.29]Whack fol de dah [02:20.24]Now dance to your partner [02:21.34]Welt the floor your trotters shake [02:23.13]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun [02:25.87]At Finnegan's wake [02:26.76] [02:27.67]Then Mickey Maloney raised his head [02:29.51] [02:30.17]When a bottle of whiskey flew at him [02:32.04] [02:33.14]It missed him falling on the bed [02:35.00] [02:35.72]The liquor scattered over Tim [02:38.23] [02:39.02]He got tim revives see how he rises [02:41.85] [02:42.90]Timothy rising from the bed [02:45.14] [02:45.83]Then Whirl your whiskey around [02:47.76]Like blazes Thanum an Dhul [02:49.77]Do ye think I'm dead [02:50.73]Whack fol de dah [02:51.59]Now dance to your partner [02:52.66]Welt the floor your trotters shake [02:54.53]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun [02:57.29]At Finnegan's wake [02:58.42]Whack fol de dah [02:59.29]Now dance to your partner [03:00.44]Welt the floor your trotters shake [03:02.42]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun [03:05.29]At Finnegan's wake [03:06.28]En na na na na