Finnigan`s Wake lyrics
tim finnegan lived in watling street, a gentle irishman - mighty odd
– he'd a beautiful brogue so rich and sweet, to rise in the world
he carried a hod, you see he'd sort of a trippling way: with love for the
liquor poor tim was born, to help him on with his work each day, he'd a
drop of the craythor every morn' one morning tim was rather full, his
head felt heavy, which made him shake, fell from the ladder and broke his
skull, so they carried him home, his corpse to wake, rolled him up in a
nice clean sheat, and laid him upon the bed, a bottle of whiskey at his
feet, and a gallon of porter at his head Chorus and whack
fol-de-dah now dance to your partner, welt the floor, your trotters
shake wasn't it the truth i told ye lots of fun at finnegan's
wake
his friends assembled at his wake and missus finnegan called for
lunch first they brought in tay and cake then pipes, tobacco and whiskey
punch biddy o'brien begged to cry, such a nice clean corpse did you
see arrah hold your gob see paddy magee then o'connor took up the
job "arrah!" biddy says she ye're wrong i'm sure, biddy then
gave her a belt on the gob and left her sprawling on the floor, there the
war did soon engage woman to woman and man to man shillelah-law was all
the rage, an a row and a ruction soon began mickey maloney raised his
head when a bottle of whickey flew at him, it missed him falling on the
bed, the liquor scattered over tim, tim revives, see how he
rises, timothy rising from the bed whirl your whisky around like blazes
tonamondeal, do ye think i'm dead
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