Finnegan's Wake

Finnegan's Wake Lyrics

Song Finnegan's Wake
Artist Christy Moore
Album Christy Moore - The Box Set 1964-2004
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[00:01.89] Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin Street, a gentle Irishman
[00:07.05] Mighty odd
[00:08.55] He had a brogue both rich and sweet, an' to rise in the
[00:11.49] World he carried a hod
[00:12.99] You see he'd a sort of a tipplers way but the love for
[00:18.54] The liquor poor Tim was born
[00:20.43] To help him on his way each day, he'd a drop of the
[00:23.88] Craythur every morn
[00:25.74] Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner around the
[00:28.92] Flure yer trotters shake
[00:30.93] Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of fun at
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[00:37.65] One morning Tim got rather full, his head felt heavy
[00:41.73] Which made him shake
[00:43.14] Fell from a ladder and he broke his skull, and they
[00:45.69] Carried him home his corpse to wake
[00:48.24] Rolled him up in a nice clean sheet, and laid him out
[00:51.87] Upon the bed
[00:53.37] A bottle of whiskey at his feet and a barrel of porter
[00:57.33] At his head
[00:58.32] Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner around the
[01:01.47] Flure yer trotters shake
[01:03.21] Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of fun at
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[01:10.86] His friends assembled at the wake, and Mrs Finnegan
[01:13.47] Called for lunch
[01:15.30] First she brought in tay and cake, then pipes, tobacco
[01:19.08] And whiskey punch
[01:20.46] Biddy O'Brien began to cry, "Such a nice clean corpse
[01:24.03] Did you ever see
[01:25.56] Tim avourneen, why did you die?", "Will ye hould your
[01:28.56] Gob?" said Paddy McGee
[01:30.48] Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner around the
[01:33.39] Flure yer trotters shake
[01:35.25] Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of fun at
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[01:41.76] Then Maggie O'Connor took up the job, "Biddy" says she
[01:45.42] "you're wrong, I'm sure"
[01:47.13] Biddy gave her a belt in the gob and left her sprawling
[01:50.70] On the floor
[01:52.29] Then the war did soon engage, t'was woman to woman and
[01:55.68] Man to man
[01:56.67] Shillelagh law was all the rage and a row and a ruction
[02:00.66] Soon began
[02:01.86] Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner around the
[02:04.83] Flure yer trotters shake
[02:06.66] Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of fun at
[02:10.35] Finnegan's Wake
[02:13.50] Mickey Maloney ducked his head when a bucket of whiskey
[02:17.04] Flew at him
[02:18.30] It missed, and falling on the bed, the liquor scattered
[02:22.38] Over Tim
[02:25.44] Bedad he revives, see how he rises, Timothy rising from
[02:29.49] The bed
[02:30.06] Saying "Whittle your whiskey around like blazes
[02:32.79] T'underin' Jaysus, do ye think I'm dead?"
[02:35.28] Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner around the
[02:38.28] Flure yer trotters shake
[02:40.11] Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of fun at
[02:43.83] Finnegan's Wake
[02:45.81] Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner around the
[02:48.81] Flure yer trotters shake
[02:50.70] Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of fun at
[02:54.81] Finnegan's Wake
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