Lanigans Ball-Christy Moore

[ti:Lanigans Ball] [ar:Christy Moore] [al:The Time Has Come] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Lanigans Ball - Christy Moore [00:09.86]In the town of Athy [00:10.77]One Jeremy Lanigan battered away till he hadn't a shilling [00:13.42]His father died made him a man again [00:15.62]Left him a farm and ten acres of ground [00:17.74] [00:19.10]Myself to be sure [00:20.14]Got invitations for the boys and girls I might ask [00:22.97]Having been asked [00:23.75]Friends and relations danced like bees around a sweet cask [00:26.69] [00:27.61]There was lashings of drink wine for the ladies [00:29.66]Potatoes and cake bacon and tea [00:31.63]Nolans and Dolans and all the O'Gradys [00:33.33]Courting the girls and dancing away [00:36.60] [00:37.14]While songs went round as plenty as water [00:39.17]The harps that are sounded through Tara's old hall [00:41.12]Biddie Grey and the rat catcher's daughter [00:42.85]Singing away at Lanigan's ball [00:45.75] [00:46.73]Six long months I spent in Dublin [00:48.55]Six long months doing nothing at all [00:50.54]Six long months I spent in Dublin [00:52.37]Learning to dance for Lanigan's ball [00:54.27]She stepped out I stepped in again [00:56.14]I stepped out and she stepped in again [00:58.18]She stepped out I stepped in again [00:59.97]Learning to dance for Lanigan's ball [01:03.46]They were doing all kinds of nonsensical [01:05.10]Dances all around in a whirligig [01:07.56]Julie and I soon banished their nonsense [01:09.52]Out on the floor for a reel and a jig [01:10.94] [01:12.40]How the girls all got mad at me [01:14.31]For they thought the ceilings would fall [01:15.99]I spent six months in Brook's Academy [01:18.10]Learning to dance for Lanigan's ball [01:20.54] [01:21.62]Well the boys were merry and the girls all hearty [01:23.78]Dancing around in their couples and groups [01:25.73]An accident happened; Terence McCarthy [01:27.50]He put his boot through Miss Finnerty's hoops [01:29.16]She fell down in a faint and cried 'Holy murder ' [01:31.53]Called her brothers and gathered them all [01:32.84]Carmody swore he'd go no further [01:35.00]Till he got revenge at Lanigan's ball [01:38.30] [01:38.90]Six long months I spent in Dublin [01:40.80]Six long months doing nothing at all [01:42.99]Six long months I spent in Dublin [01:44.63]Learning to dance for Lanigan's ball [01:46.60]She stepped out I stepped in again [01:48.40]I stepped out and [01:49.22] [01:50.33]She stepped in again [01:51.45]She stepped out [01:52.09]Learning to dance for Lanigan's ball