Tim Finnegan's Wake-The Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem

[ti:Tim Finnegan's Wake] [ar:The Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem] [al:A Spontaneous Performance Recording] [offset:0] [00:00.43]Tim finnegan lived in watling street [00:03.68]A gentle irishman mighty odd [00:05.69]He'd a beautiful brogue so rich and sweet [00:07.57]To rise in the world he carried a hod [00:09.42]See he'd sort of a tipplin' way [00:11.30]With love for the liquor poor tim was born [00:13.14]To help him a man with his work each day [00:15.10]He'd a drop of the craythin' every morn [00:17.02]Whack fol de dah [00:17.78]Now dance to your partner [00:18.85]Welt the floor your trotters shake [00:20.81]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun [00:23.45]At finnegan's wake [00:24.24]One morning tim got rather full [00:26.22]His head felt heavy which made him shake [00:28.13]Fell from a ladder and he broke his skull [00:30.00]They carried him home his corpse to wake [00:31.76]Rolled him up in a nice clean sheet [00:33.74]And laid him out upon the bed [00:35.44]A gallon of whiskey at his feet [00:37.29]And a bottle of porter at his head [00:38.80] [00:39.33]Whack fol de dah [00:40.18]Now dance to your partner [00:41.22]Welt the floor your trotters shake [00:43.01]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun [00:45.64]At finnegan's wake [00:46.42]His friends assembled at the wake [00:48.36]And misses finnegan called for lunch [00:50.37]First she brought in tea and cake [00:52.18]Then pipes tobacco and whiskey punch [00:54.13]Biddy o'brien began to cry [00:55.88]Such a nice clean corpse did you ever see [00:57.93]Tim me boy yadda hoy dida ho yada [00:59.80]Arrah hold your gobâ said patty megee [01:01.00] [01:01.55]Whack fol de dah [01:02.45]Now dance to your partner [01:03.48]Welt the floor your trotters shake [01:05.25]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun [01:07.85]At finnegan's wake [01:08.94]Then o'connor took up the job [01:10.79]Arrah biddy says she ye're wrong I'm sure [01:12.61]Biddy then gave her a belt on the gob [01:14.48]And left her sprawling on the floor [01:16.28]There the war did soon engage [01:18.15]Woman to woman and man to man [01:20.03]Shillelah law was all the rage [01:22.00]An a row and a ruction soon began [01:23.92]Whack fol de dah [01:24.83]Now dance to your partner [01:25.80]Welt the floor your trotters shake [01:27.50]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun [01:30.08]At finnegan's wake [01:31.20]Then mickey maloney raised his head [01:32.93]When a bottle of whiskey flew at him [01:34.81]It missed him falling on the bed [01:36.48]The liquor scattered over tim [01:38.46]Tim revives see how he rises [01:40.37]Timothy rising from the bed [01:42.18]Then whirl your whiskey around [01:43.44]Like blazes thanum o'n dhoul [01:44.72]Do ye think I'm dead [01:46.07]Whack fol de dah [01:46.88]Now dance to your partner [01:47.90]Welt the floor your trotters shake [01:49.69]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun [01:52.23]At finnegan's wake [01:53.21]Tim Finnegan's Wake - The Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem [01:54.89]