Lannigan's Ball-Barnbrack

[ti:Lannigan's Ball] [ar:Barnbrack] [al:Galaway Shawl] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Lannigan's Ball - Barnbrack [00:11.19]In the town of Athy one Jeremy Lanigan [00:13.94]Battered away till he hadn't a pound [00:16.37]His father he died and made him a man again [00:18.99]Left him a farm and ten acres of ground [00:21.09] [00:22.44]He gave a grand party to friends and relations [00:24.86]Who didn't desert him when it comes to the will [00:27.32]And if you'll but listen I'll make your eyes glisten [00:30.04]Of rows and ructions at Lanigan's Ball [00:32.40]Six whole months I spent in Dublin [00:34.92]Six whole months doing nothing at all [00:37.38]Six whole months I spent in Dublin [00:39.85]Learning to dance for Lanigan's Ball [00:42.25]I stepped out I stepped in again [00:44.86]I stepped in again I stepped in again [00:47.29]I stepped out and I stepped in again [00:49.68]Learning to dance for Lanigan's Ball [00:52.20] [00:53.20]Myself to be sure got free invitation [00:55.70]For all the nice girls and boys I might ask [00:58.14]And just in a minute both friends and relations [01:00.61]For dancing as merry as bees around a cask [01:03.20] [01:04.13]There were lashings of punch and wine for the ladies [01:06.77]Potatoes and cakes there was bacon and tea [01:09.42]There were the Nolans Dolans Ogradys [01:11.73]Courting the girls and dancing away [01:14.29] [01:15.18]They were doing all kinds of nonsensical polkas [01:17.98]Around the room in a whirligig [01:20.30]But Julia and I soon banished their nonsense [01:22.84]And tipped them a taste of a real Irish jig [01:25.12] [01:26.67]Oh how that girls got mad on me [01:28.87]And danced till you'd think the ceilings would fall [01:31.34]For I spent three weeks at Brook's academy [01:33.99]Learning new steps for Lanigan's Ball [01:36.41]Six whole months I spent in Dublin [01:38.84]Six whole months doing nothing at all [01:41.38]Six whole months I spent in Dublin [01:43.76]Learning to dance for Lanigan's Ball [01:46.19]I stepped out I stepped in again [01:48.82]I stepped in again I stepped in again [01:51.23]I stepped out and I stepped in again [01:53.67]Learning to dance for Lanigan's Ball [01:56.12] [01:57.20]The boys were all merry the girls were all hearty [01:59.86]Dancing away in couples and groups [02:02.06]Till an accident happened young Terrance Mccarthy [02:04.68]Put his right leg through miss finerty's hoops [02:07.10] [02:08.25]The creature she fainted and cried melia murder [02:10.88]Cried for her brothers and gathered them all [02:13.37]Carmody swore that he'd go no further [02:15.49]Till he'd have satisfaction at Lanigan's Ball [02:18.28] [02:19.05]In the midst of the row miss kerrigan fainted [02:21.97]Her cheeks at the same time as red as a rose [02:24.42]Some of the boys decreed she was painted [02:26.72]She took a smoke drop too much I suppose [02:29.28] [02:30.37]Her sweetheart ned morgan all powerful and able [02:33.01]Saw his fair colleen stretched out by the wall [02:35.42]He tore the left leg from under the table [02:37.63]And smashed all the dishes at lanigan's Ball [02:40.40]Six whole months I spent in Dublin [02:42.85]Six whole months doing nothing at all [02:45.33]Six whole months I spent in Dublin [02:47.71]Learning to dance for Lanigan's Ball [02:50.15]I stepped out I stepped in again [02:52.80]I stepped in again I stepped in again [02:55.18]I stepped out and I stepped in again [02:57.66]Learning to dance for Lanigan's Ball [03:00.02] [03:01.21]Boys oh boys till then there was ructions [03:03.72]Myself got a kick from big phelam mchugh [03:06.17]But soon I replied to this kind introduction [03:08.57]And kicked up a terrible hullaBalloo [03:10.73] [03:12.26]Old casey the piper was near being strangled [03:14.84]They squeezed up his pipes bellows chanters and all [03:17.25]The girls in their ribbons they all got entangled [03:19.57]And that put an end to lanigan's Ball [03:22.20]Six whole months I spent in Dublin [03:24.72]Six whole months doing nothing at all [03:27.15]Six whole months I spent in Dublin [03:29.63]Learning to dance for Lanigan's Ball [03:32.12]I stepped out I stepped in again [03:34.54]I stepped in again I stepped in again [03:37.01]I stepped out and I stepped in again [03:39.50]Learning to dance for Lanigan's Ball [03:41.89]I stepped out I stepped in again [03:44.40]I stepped in again I stepped in again [03:46.84]I stepped out and I stepped in again [03:49.35]Learning to dance for Lanigan's Ball