Finnegan's Wake-Liam Clancy

[ti:Finnegan's Wake] [ar:Liam Clancy] [al:The Liam Clancy Collection (Extended Digital Remastered Edition)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Finnegan's Wake - Liam Clancy [00:02.96]Tim Finnegan lived in watling street [00:05.43]A gentle Irishman mighty odd [00:07.85]He'd a beautiful brogue so rich and sweet [00:10.20]To rise in the world he carried a hod [00:12.58]See he'd sort of a tipplin' way [00:14.92]With love for the liquor poor Tim was born [00:17.28]To help him on with his work each day [00:19.66]He'd a drop of the craythur every morn' [00:21.98]Whack fol de dah [00:23.22]Now dance to your partner [00:24.52]Welt the floor your trotters shake [00:26.22] [00:26.75]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun [00:29.92]At Finnegan's wake [00:31.34]One morning Tim got rather full [00:33.52]His head felt heavy which made him shake [00:35.87]Fell from a ladder and he broke his skull [00:38.12]They carried him home his corpse to wake [00:40.35]Rolled him up in a nice clean sheet [00:42.72]And laid him out upon the bed [00:45.10]A gallon of whiskey at his feet [00:47.28]And a bottle of porter at his head [00:49.66]Whack fol de dah [00:50.84]Now dance to your partner [00:52.21]Welt the floor your trotters shake [00:54.35]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun [00:57.51]At Finnegan's wake [00:58.98]His friends assembled at the wake [01:01.03]And misses Finnegan called for lunch [01:03.52]First she brought in tea and cake [01:05.69]Then pipes tobacco and whiskey punch [01:08.30]Biddy O'Brien began to cry [01:10.33]Such a nice clean corpse did you ever see [01:12.54]Tim mavourneen why did you die [01:14.96]Arrah hold your gob said Patty Megee [01:17.12]Whack fol de dah [01:18.48]Now dance to your partner [01:19.73]Welt the floor your trotters shake [01:21.55] [01:22.06]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun [01:25.08]At Finnegan's wake [01:26.39]Then Maggie O'Connor took up the job [01:28.71]Arrah biddy says she ye're wrong I'm sure [01:30.87]Biddy then gave her a belt on the gob [01:33.29]And left her sprawling on the floor [01:35.42]There the war did soon engage [01:37.57]Woman to woman and man to man [01:40.03]Shillelah law was all the rage [01:42.44]An a row and a ruction soon began [01:44.57]Whack fol de dah [01:45.87]Now dance to your partner [01:47.07]Welt the floor your trotters shake [01:49.39]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun [01:52.51]At Finnegan's wake [01:53.90]Then Mickey Maloney raised his head [01:55.92]When a bottle of whiskey flew at him [01:58.25]It missed him falling on the bed [02:00.35]The liquor scattered over Tim [02:02.70]Tim revives see how he rises [02:04.99]Timothy rising from the bed [02:07.03]Then Whirl your whiskey around [02:08.82]Like blazes Thanum an Dhul [02:10.04]Do ye think I'm dead [02:11.72]Whack fol de dah [02:12.54]Now dance to your partner [02:13.81]Welt the floor your trotters shake [02:16.28]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun [02:19.35]At Finnegan's wake