Finnegan's Wake-The Irish Masters

[ti:Finnegan's Wake] [ar:The Irish Masters] [al:Essential St Patricks Day - The Top 20 Irish Drinking Celtic Anthems of all time!] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Finnegan's Wake - The Irish Masters [00:02.53]Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin Street [00:06.71]A gentle Irishman mighty odd [00:09.77] [00:10.89]He had a brogue both rich and sweet [00:13.97] [00:14.76]An' to rise in the world he carried a hod [00:17.79] [00:19.37]You see he'd a sort of a tipplers way [00:21.71] [00:23.27]But the love for the liquor poor Tim was born [00:26.16] [00:27.85]To help him on his way each day [00:31.68] [00:32.55]He'd a drop of the craythur every morn [00:34.83] [00:35.56]Whack fol the dah now dance to yer [00:38.04]Partner around the flure yer trotters shake [00:39.87] [00:40.57]Wasn't it the truth I told you [00:42.98]Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake [00:45.02] [00:47.98]One morning Tim got rather full [00:50.63]His head felt heavy which made him shake [00:53.23]Fell from a ladder and he broke his skull [00:55.75]And they carried him home his corpse to wake [00:58.09]Rolled him up in a nice clean sheet [01:00.35]And laid him out upon the bed [01:02.38] [01:02.95]A bottle of whiskey at his feet [01:05.61]And a barrel of porter at his head [01:07.42] [01:08.15]Whack fol the dah now dance to yer [01:10.55]Partner around the flure yer trotters shake [01:12.43] [01:13.13]Wasn't it the truth I told you [01:15.32]Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake [01:17.21] [01:20.37]His friends assembled at the wake [01:22.82]And Mrs Finnegan called for lunch [01:24.78] [01:25.54]First she brought in tay and cake [01:27.78]Then pipes tobacco and whiskey punch [01:29.90] [01:30.41]Biddy O'Brien began to cry [01:32.64]Such a nice clean corpse did you ever see [01:35.42]Tim avourneen why did you die [01:37.71]Will ye hould your gob said paddy McGee [01:40.35]Whack fol the dah now dance to yer [01:42.54]Partner around the flure yer trotters shake [01:44.58] [01:45.22]Wasn't it the truth I told you [01:47.46]Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake [01:49.75] [01:51.93]Then Maggie O'Connor took up the job [01:54.68]Biddy says she you're wrong I'm sure [01:56.58] [01:57.21]Biddy gave her a belt in the [01:59.33]Gob and left her sprawling on the floor [02:01.37] [02:01.98]Then the war did soon engage [02:04.20]T'was woman to woman and man to man [02:06.69]Shillelagh law was all the rage [02:08.40] [02:09.28]And a row and a ruction soon began [02:11.09] [02:11.60]Whack fol the dah now dance to yer [02:13.91]Partner around the flure yer trotters shake [02:15.75] [02:16.52]Wasn't it the truth I told you [02:18.92]Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake [02:21.27] [02:23.05]Mickey Maloney ducked his head when [02:26.68]A bucket of whiskey flew at him [02:28.82] [02:29.91]It missed and falling on the bed [02:33.38]The liquor scattered over Tim [02:36.32] [02:37.84]Bedad he revives see how he rises [02:40.99] [02:41.68]Timothy rising from the bed [02:44.31] [02:45.47]Saying whittle your whiskey around [02:48.10]Like blazes t'undering jaysus do ye think I'm dead [02:51.03]Whack fol the dah now dance to yer [02:53.37]Partner around the flure yer trotters shake [02:55.33] [02:55.94]Wasn't it the truth I told you [02:58.32]Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake