Finnegan's Wake-The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem

[ti:Tim Finnegan's Wake] [ar:The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem] [al:Irish Gold] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Finnegan's Wake - The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem [00:02.69]Tim Finnegan lived in Watling Street [00:05.02]A gentle Irishman mighty odd [00:07.31]He'd a beautiful brogue so rich and sweet [00:09.53]To rise in the world he carried a hod [00:11.90]See he'd sort of a tipplin' way [00:13.97]With love for the liquor poor Tim was born [00:16.35]To help him a man with his work each day [00:18.54]He'd a drop of the craythin' every morn' [00:20.76]Whack fol de dah [00:21.91]Now dance to your partner [00:22.88]Welt the floor your trotters shake [00:25.13]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun [00:28.22]At Finnegan's wake [00:29.46]One morning Tim got rather full [00:31.65]His head felt heavy which made him shake [00:33.79]Fell from a ladder and he broke his skull [00:35.96]They carried him home his corpse to wake [00:38.02]Rolled him up in a nice clean sheet [00:40.31]And laid him out upon the bed [00:42.55]A gallon of whiskey at his feet [00:44.67]And a bottle of porter at his head [00:46.90]Whack fol de dah [00:48.13]Now dance to your partner [00:49.12]Welt the floor your trotters shake [00:51.29]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun [00:54.39]At Finnegan's wake [00:55.57]His friends assembled at the wake [00:57.62]And misses Finnegan called for lunch [00:59.88]First she brought in tea and cake [01:02.10]Then pipes tobacco and whiskey punch [01:04.32]Biddy O'Brien began to cry [01:06.39]Such a nice clean corpse did you ever see [01:08.58]Tim me a warning where did you die [01:10.66]Arrah hold your goba said Patty Megee [01:13.00]Whack fol de dah [01:14.04]Now dance to your partner [01:15.08]Welt the floor your trotters shake [01:17.29]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun [01:20.28]At Finnegan's wake [01:21.55]Then O'Connor took up the job [01:23.63]Arrah Biddy says she ye're wrong I'm sure [01:25.98]Biddy then gave her a belt on the gob [01:27.95]And left her sprawling on the floor [01:30.14]There the war did soon engage [01:32.26]Was woman to woman and man to man [01:34.40]Shillelah law was all the rage [01:36.49]An a row and a ruction soon began [01:38.74]Whack fol de dah [01:39.87]Now dance to your partner [01:40.94]Welt the floor your trotters shake [01:43.13]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun [01:46.14]At Finnegan's wake [01:47.37]Then Mickey Maloney raised his head [01:49.34]When another of whiskey flew at him [01:51.59]It missed him falling on the bed [01:53.58]The liquor scattered over Tim [01:55.80]Tim revives see how he rises [01:58.00]Timothy rising from the bed [01:59.94]Says Whirl your whiskey around [02:01.64]Like blazes Thanum o'n Dhoul [02:03.32]I think I'm dead [02:04.20]Whack fol de dah [02:05.36]Now dance to your partner [02:06.42]Welt the floor your trotters shake [02:08.61]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun [02:11.51]At Finnegan's wake