Lanigan's Ball-Barnbrack

[ti:Lannigan's Ball] [ar:Barnbrack] [al:Galaway Shawl] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Lanigan's Ball - Barnbrack [00:12.58]In the town of Athy one Jeremy Lanigan [00:15.33]Battered away till he hadn't a pound [00:17.76]His father he died and made him a man again [00:20.38]Left him a farm and ten acres of ground [00:22.47] [00:23.82]He gave a grand party to friends and relations [00:26.25]Who didn't desert him when it comes to the will [00:28.71]And if you'll but listen I'll make your eyes glisten [00:31.43]Of rows and ructions at Lanigan's Ball [00:33.78]Six whole months I spent in Dublin [00:36.31]Six whole months doing nothing at all [00:38.77]Six whole months I spent in Dublin [00:41.24]Learning to dance for Lanigan's Ball [00:43.64]I stepped out I stepped in again [00:46.25]I stepped in again I stepped in again [00:48.67]I stepped out and I stepped in again [00:51.06]Learning to dance for Lanigan's Ball [00:53.58] [00:54.58]Myself to be sure got free invitation [00:57.08]For all the nice girls and boys I might ask [00:59.52]And just in a minute both friends and relations [01:02.00]For dancing as merry as bees around a cask [01:04.59] [01:05.52]There were lashings of punch and wine for the ladies [01:08.16]Potatoes and cakes there was bacon and tea [01:10.81]There were the Nolans Dolans Ogradys [01:13.12]Courting the girls and dancing away [01:15.68] [01:16.57]They were doing all kinds of nonsensical polkas [01:19.37]Around the room in a whirligig [01:21.69]But Julia and I soon banished their nonsense [01:24.23]And tipped them a taste of a real Irish jig [01:26.50] [01:28.05]Oh how that girls got mad on me [01:30.26]And danced till you'd think the ceilings would fall [01:32.73]For I spent three weeks at Brook's academy [01:35.38]Learning new steps for Lanigan's Ball [01:37.80]Six whole months I spent in Dublin [01:40.23]Six whole months doing nothing at all [01:42.77]Six whole months I spent in Dublin [01:45.15]Learning to dance for Lanigan's Ball [01:47.58]I stepped out I stepped in again [01:50.20]I stepped in again I stepped in again [01:52.61]I stepped out and I stepped in again [01:55.05]Learning to dance for Lanigan's Ball [01:57.50] [01:58.58]The boys were all merry the girls were all hearty [02:01.24]Dancing away in couples and groups [02:03.45]Till an accident happened young Terrance Mccarthy [02:06.07]Put his right leg through miss finerty's hoops [02:08.49] [02:09.64]The creature she fainted and cried melia murder [02:12.27]Cried for her brothers and gathered them all [02:14.76]Carmody swore that he'd go no further [02:16.88]Till he'd have satisfaction at Lanigan's Ball [02:19.66] [02:20.43]In the midst of the row miss kerrigan fainted [02:23.35]Her cheeks at the same time as red as a rose [02:25.80]Some of the boys decreed she was painted [02:28.11]She took a smoke drop too much I suppose [02:30.67] [02:31.76]Her sweetheart ned morgan all powerful and able [02:34.40]Saw his fair colleen stretched out by the wall [02:36.81]He tore the left leg from under the table [02:39.02]And smashed all the dishes at lanigan's Ball [02:41.79]Six whole months I spent in Dublin [02:44.24]Six whole months doing nothing at all [02:46.71]Six whole months I spent in Dublin [02:49.09]Learning to dance for Lanigan's Ball [02:51.53]I stepped out I stepped in again [02:54.19]I stepped in again I stepped in again [02:56.57]I stepped out and I stepped in again [02:59.05]Learning to dance for Lanigan's Ball [03:01.41] [03:02.60]Boys oh boys till then there was ructions [03:05.11]Myself got a kick from big phelam mchugh [03:07.56]But soon I replied to this kind introduction [03:09.95]And kicked up a terrible hullaBalloo [03:12.11] [03:13.64]Old casey the piper was near being strangled [03:16.22]They squeezed up his pipes bellows chanters and all [03:18.64]The girls in their ribbons they all got entangled [03:20.96]And that put an end to lanigan's Ball [03:23.59]Six whole months I spent in Dublin [03:26.11]Six whole months doing nothing at all [03:28.54]Six whole months I spent in Dublin [03:31.02]Learning to dance for Lanigan's Ball [03:33.51]I stepped out I stepped in again [03:35.93]I stepped in again I stepped in again [03:38.40]I stepped out and I stepped in again [03:40.89]Learning to dance for Lanigan's Ball [03:43.28]I stepped out I stepped in again [03:45.79]I stepped in again I stepped in again [03:48.22]I stepped out and I stepped in again [03:50.73]Learning to dance for Lanigan's Ball