Finnegan's Wake-The Dubliners

[ti:Finnegan's Wake] [ar:The Dubliners] [al:Definitive Pub Songs Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Finnegan's Wake - The Dubliners [00:02.25]Ah Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin Street [00:04.63] [00:05.30]A gentleman Irish mighty odd [00:07.11] [00:08.18]Well he had a tongue both rich and sweet [00:09.82] [00:10.57]An' to rise in the world he carried a hod [00:12.57] [00:13.59]Ah but Tim had a sort of a tipplin' way [00:15.53] [00:16.09]With the love of the liquor he was born [00:17.42] [00:18.34]An' to send him on his way each day [00:20.34]He'd a drop of the craythur every morn [00:22.37]Whack fol the dah will ya dance to yer partner [00:24.57]Around the flure yer trotters shake [00:26.25]Wasn't it the truth I told you [00:28.12]Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake [00:30.02] [00:30.90]One morning Tim was rather full [00:32.89] [00:33.63]His head felt heavy which made him shake [00:35.69] [00:36.36]He fell off the ladder and he broke his skull [00:38.87]And they carried him home his corpse to wake [00:40.81] [00:41.56]Well they rolled him up in a nice clean sheet [00:43.59] [00:44.20]And they laid him out upon the bed [00:46.27]With a bottle of whiskey at his feet [00:48.03]And a barrel of porter at his head [00:50.41]Whack fol the dah will ya dance to yer partner [00:52.91]Around the flure yer trotters shake [00:54.19]Wasn't it the truth I told you [00:56.03]Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake [00:57.76] [00:58.65]Well his friends assembled at the wake [01:00.43] [01:01.28]And Mrs Finnegan called for lunch [01:03.03] [01:04.12]Well first they brought in tay and cake [01:06.54]Then pipes tobacco and brandy punch [01:08.57] [01:09.21]Then the widow Malone began to cry [01:11.28] [01:12.02]"Such a lovely corpse did you ever see [01:14.93]Arrah Tim avourneen why did you die " [01:17.01]"Will ye hould your gob " said Molly McGee [01:19.04]Whack fol the dah will ya dance to yer partner [01:21.07]Around the flure yer trotters shake [01:22.90]Wasn't it the truth I told you [01:24.76]Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake [01:26.52] [01:27.55]Well Mary O'Connor took up the job [01:29.54] [01:30.44]"Biddy" says she "you're wrong I'm sure" [01:32.45] [01:33.16]Well Biddy gave her a belt in the gob [01:35.56]And left her sprawling on the floor [01:37.45] [01:38.33]Well civil war did then engage [01:40.72]T'was woman to woman and man to man [01:42.26] [01:43.15]Shillelagh law was all the rage [01:45.19]And a row and a ruction soon began [01:47.25]Whack fol the dah will ya dance to yer partner [01:49.07]Around the flure yer trotters shake [01:51.11]Wasn't it the truth I told you [01:52.99]Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake [01:54.72] [01:55.77]Well Tim Maloney raised his head [01:58.16]When a bottle of whiskey flew at him [02:00.17] [02:01.06]He ducked and landing on the bed [02:03.00] [02:03.54]The whiskey scattered over Tim [02:05.25] [02:06.40]Bedad he revives see how he rises [02:08.44] [02:09.16]Tim Finnegan rising in the bed [02:10.72] [02:11.78]Saying "Whittle your whiskey around like blazes [02:13.74] [02:14.28]T'underin' Jaysus do ye think I'm dead " [02:16.40]Whack fol the dah will ya dance to yer partner [02:18.17]Around the flure yer trotters shake [02:20.32]Wasn't it the truth I told you [02:22.18]Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake