[00:00.44]Tim finnegan lived in watling street
[00:03.68]A gentle irishman mighty odd
[00:05.69]He'd a beautiful brogue so rich and sweet
[00:07.57]To rise in the world he carried a hod
[00:09.42]See he'd sort of a tipplin' way
[00:11.30]With love for the liquor poor tim was born
[00:13.14]To help him a man with his work each day
[00:15.10]He'd a drop of the craythin' every morn
[00:17.02]Whack fol de dah
[00:17.78]Now dance to your partner
[00:18.85]Welt the floor your trotters shake
[00:20.81]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun
[00:23.45]At finnegan's wake
[00:24.24]One morning tim got rather full
[00:26.22]His head felt heavy which made him shake
[00:28.13]Fell from a ladder and he broke his skull
[00:30.00]They carried him home his corpse to wake
[00:31.76]Rolled him up in a nice clean sheet
[00:33.74]And laid him out upon the bed
[00:35.44]A gallon of whiskey at his feet
[00:37.29]And a bottle of porter at his head
[00:39.33]Whack fol de dah
[00:40.18]Now dance to your partner
[00:41.22]Welt the floor your trotters shake
[00:43.01]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun
[00:45.64]At finnegan's wake
[00:46.42]His friends assembled at the wake
[00:48.36]And misses finnegan called for lunch
[00:50.37]First she brought in tea and cake
[00:52.18]Then pipes tobacco and whiskey punch
[00:54.13]Biddy o'brien began to cry
[00:55.88]Such a nice clean corpse did you ever see
[00:57.93]Tim me boy yadda hoy dida ho yada
[00:59.80]Arrah hold your gobâ said patty megee
[01:01.55]Whack fol de dah
[01:02.45]Now dance to your partner
[01:03.48]Welt the floor your trotters shake
[01:05.25]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun
[01:07.85]At finnegan's wake
[01:08.94]Then o'connor took up the job
[01:10.79]Arrah biddy says she ye're wrong I'm sure
[01:12.61]Biddy then gave her a belt on the gob
[01:14.48]And left her sprawling on the floor
[01:16.28]There the war did soon engage
[01:18.15]Woman to woman and man to man
[01:20.03]Shillelah law was all the rage
[01:22.00]An a row and a ruction soon began
[01:23.92]Whack fol de dah
[01:24.83]Now dance to your partner
[01:25.80]Welt the floor your trotters shake
[01:27.50]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun
[01:30.08]At finnegan's wake
[01:31.20]Then mickey maloney raised his head
[01:32.93]When a bottle of whiskey flew at him
[01:34.81]It missed him falling on the bed
[01:36.48]The liquor scattered over tim
[01:38.46]Tim revives see how he rises
[01:40.37]Timothy rising from the bed
[01:42.18]Then whirl your whiskey around
[01:43.44]Like blazes thanum o'n dhoul
[01:44.72]Do ye think I'm dead
[01:46.07]Whack fol de dah
[01:46.88]Now dance to your partner
[01:47.90]Welt the floor your trotters shake
[01:49.69]Wasn't it the truth they told ye lots of fun
[01:52.23]At finnegan's wake
[01:53.21]Tim Finnegan's Wake - The Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem