Christy Moore - Finnegan's Wake Lyrics

Lyrics Finnegan's Wake - Christy Moore



Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin Street
A gentleman Irish mighty odd
He had a beautiful brogue both rich and sweet
And to rise in the world he carried a hod
But you see he'd a kind of a tippling way
With a love for the liquor Tim was born
To help him at his work each day
He'd a drop of the craythur every morn
Whack fol the dah now swing to yer partners
Dance the flure yer trotters shake
Wasn't it the truth I told you?
Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake
One morning Tim was rather full
His head felt heavy and it made him shake
He fell from a ladder and he broke his skull
So they took him home his corpse to wake
They wrapped him up in a nice clean sheet
And they laid him out upon the bed
With a barrel of porter at his feet
And a gallon of whiskey at his head
Whack fol the dah now swing to yer partners
Welt the flure yer trotters shake
Wasn't it the truth I told you?
Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake
With all his friends there at the wake
Mrs Finnegan called out for the lunch
First they laid in tea and cake
Then pipes and tobacco and whiskey punch
Biddy O'Brien began to cry
"Such a pretty corpse did you ever see"
"Tim my love, why did you die?"
"Will ye shut your mouth?" said Judy McGee
Whack fol the dah now swing to yer partners
Welt the flure yer trotters shake
Wasn't it the truth I told you?
Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake
Then Peggy Jordan took up the job
" Era Biddy" says she, "you're wrong, I'm sure"
Biddy gave her a belt in the gob
That left her sprawling on the floor
Each side in war did then engage
T'was woman to woman and man to man
Shillelagh law was all the rage
And a row and a ruction soon began
Whack fol the dah now swing to yer partners
Welt the flure yer trotters shake
Wasn't it the truth I told you?
Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake
Well Mickey Mulvaney ducked his head
When a bottle of whiskey flew at him
It missed him and scattering on the bed
The whiskey spilt all over Tim
Begod he revives, see how he rises
Timothy leapin' up out from the bed
Cried "Whirl ye liquor around like blazes
T'underin' Jaysus, do ye think I'm dead?"
Whack fol the dah now swing to yer partners
Welt the flure yer trotters shake
Wasn't it the truth I told you?
Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake
Whack fol the dah now swing to yer partners
Welt the flure yer trotters shake
Wasn't it the truth I told you?
Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake



Writer(s): Pd Traditional, J Baird


Christy Moore - Christy Moore: The Box Set (1964-2004)
Album Christy Moore: The Box Set (1964-2004)
date of release
19-03-2004

1 Yellow Triangle
2 Dunnes Stores
3 They Never Came Home
4 Nuke Power
5 Who Cares?
6 Mullaghmore
7 Hey! Ronnie Reagan
8 St. Patrick's Night in San Fernando
9 Tim Evans
10 Goose Green (Taking Tea with Pinochet)
11 In Zurich
12 The Powdered Milk Brigade
13 Folk Tale
14 Two Conneeleys
15 Don't Forget Your Shovel
16 Quiet Desperation
17 January Man
18 Poor Old Earth
19 Tippin' It Up
20 Poitín
21 1945
22 Little Musgrave
23 Johnny Jump Up
24 Radcliffe Highway
25 John O'Dreams
26 Cold Blow
27 The Raggle Taggle Gypsy
28 El Salvador
29 Jack Doyle (The Contender)
30 Joxer
31 Intro
32 Lawless
33 Different Love Song
34 Changes
35 Ballindine
36 Anne Lovett
37 Dalesman's Litany
38 Farewell to Pripchat
39 The Lakes of Pontcharttrain
40 Cricklewood
41 Strange Ways
42 Wise and Holy Woman
43 Veronica
44 Cry Like a Man
45 Viva la Quinte Brigada
46 The Auld Triangle
47 Brown Eyes (For Joe Shheran)
48 Johnny Connors
49 Lay with Me
50 This Is the Day
51 Among the Wicklow Hills
52 Aisling
53 Grey Lake of Loughrea
54 All I Remember
55 Someone to Love
56 Trip to Carnsore
57 Danny Boy (Derrylondon Air)
58 Ships in the Forest
59 100 Miles from Home
60 Smoke and Strong Whiskey
61 The Way Pierce Turner Sings
62 The Hamburg Medley
63 Tyrone Boys
64 Hey Paddy
65 On the Blanket
66 Southern Winds
67 Don't Hand Me Over
68 Shoot out the Streetlights
69 The Bridge at Killaloe (Scariff Martyrs)
70 North and South
71 At the G.P.O. 1980
72 90 Miles to Dublin
73 Wicklow Boy
74 Ballinamore
75 Rialto Derry January 1993
76 Armagh Women
77 On the Bridge
78 Scapegoats
79 Fouled the Ball
80 No Time for Love
81 On a Single Day
82 Roots
83 The Old Man's Song
84 1913 Lockout
85 Seth Davy
86 The Bould Rake
87 Bridget's Pill
88 The Lark in the Morning
89 Come by the Hill
90 The Enniskillen Dragoon
91 Weela Waile
92 Whiskey in the Jar
93 Tribute to Ewan McColl
94 Finnegan's Wake
95 Down in the Valley
96 Paddy on the Road
97 Three Drunken Maidens




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