The Dubliners - Finnegans Wake - Live Lyrics

Lyrics Finnegans Wake - Live - The Dubliners



Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin Street,
A gentle Irishman mighty odd
He had a brogue both rich and sweet,
An' to rise in the world he carried a hod
You see he'd a sort of a tipplers way
But the love for the liquor poor Tim was born
To help him on his way each day,
He'd a drop of the craythur every morn
Whack fol the dah now dance to yer
Partner around the flure yer trotters shake
Wasn't it the truth I told you?
Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake
One morning Tim got rather full,
His head felt heavy which made him shake
Fell from a ladder and he broke his skull,
And they carried him home his corpse to wake
Rolled him up in a nice clean sheet,
And laid him out upon the bed
A bottle of whiskey at his feet
And a barrel of porter at his head
His friends assembled at the wake,
And Mrs Finnegan called for lunch
First she brought in tay and cake,
Then pipes, tobacco and whiskey punch
Biddy O'Brien began to cry,
"Such a nice clean corpse, did you ever see
Tim avourneen, why did you die?",
"Will ye hould your gob?" said Paddy McGee
Then Maggie O'Connor took up the job,
"Biddy" says she "you're wrong, I'm sure"
Biddy gave her a belt in the
Gob and left her sprawling on the floor
Then the war did soon engage,
T'was woman to woman and man to man
Shillelagh law was all the rage
And a row and a ruction soon began
Mickey Maloney ducked his head when
A bucket of whiskey flew at him
It missed, and falling on the bed,
The liquor scattered over Tim
Bedad he revives, see how he rises,
Timothy rising from the bed
Saying "Whittle your whiskey around
Like blazes, t'underin' Jaysus, do ye think I'm dead?"



Writer(s): JOHN SHEEHAN, BARNEY MCKENNA, CIARON BOURKE, LUKE KELLY, RONNIE DREW


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3 The Nightingale - Live
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6 Jar of Porter
7 Jar of Porter - Live
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9 The Galway Races
10 Sally Wheatley
11 I'm A Rover
12 The Leaving of Liverpool
13 Black Velvet Band
14 I'm a Freeborn Man
15 Rare Old Mountain Dew
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17 Weila Waile
18 Hot Asphalt
19 Hot Asphalt (Edit)
20 I'll Tell My Ma
21 The Holy Ground
22 Cod Liver Oil
23 Whiskey in the Jar
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27 Muirsheen Durkin
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29 The Old Triangle
30 Love Is Pleasing
31 Croppy Boy
32 Banks of the Roses
33 Banks of the Roses (Live)
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35 Rocky Road to Dublin
36 The Rocky Road to Dublin (Live)
37 Leaving Nancy
38 The Pub With No Beer
39 Home Boys Home
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41 Don't Get Married
42 The Downfall of Paris
43 Weila, Weila, Waile
44 Comical Genius
45 Springhill Desaster




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