The Clancy Brothers - Tim Finnegan's Wake (Live) Lyrics

Lyrics Tim Finnegan's Wake (Live) - The Clancy Brothers



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
See, he'd sort of a tipplin′ 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 craythur every morn'
Whack fol, de, dah
Now, dance to your partner
Welt the floor, your trotters shake
Wasn′t it the truth, they told ye 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
They carried him home, his corpse to wake
Rolled him up in a nice clean sheet
And laid him out upon the bed
A gallon of whiskey at his feet
And a bottle of porter at his head
Whack fol, de, dah
Now, dance to your partner
Welt the floor, your trotters shake
Wasn't it the truth, they told ye lots of fun
At Finnegan′s wake
His friends assembled at the wake
And misses Finnegan called for lunch
First she brought in tea and cake
Then pipes, tobacco and whiskey punch
Biddy O'Brien began to cry
Such a nice clean corpse, did you ever see?
Tim mavourneen, why did you die?
Arrah, hold your gob, said Patty Megee
Whack fol, de, dah
Now, dance to your partner
Welt the floor, your trotters shake
Wasn′t it the truth, they told ye lots of fun
At Finnegan's wake
Then Maggie 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
Whack fol, de, dah
Now, dance to your partner
Welt the floor, your trotters shake
Wasn′t it the truth, they told ye lots of fun
At Finnegan′s wake
Then Mickey Maloney raised his head
When a bottle of whiskey 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
Then Whirl your whiskey around
Like blazes Thanum an Dhul
Do ye think I'm dead?



Writer(s): TOMMY MAKEM, PAT CLANCY, LIAM CLANCY, TOM CLANCY


The Clancy Brothers - The Folk Collection 1955-1962
Album The Folk Collection 1955-1962
date of release
04-04-2014

1 God Bless England (Live)
2 The Cobbler
3 Mr Moses Ri-Tooral-I-Ay (Live)
4 Johnny, I Hardly Knew You (Live)
5 Bold O Donahue
6 I'll Tell My Ma
7 Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go
8 Rothsea O
9 Marie's Wedding
10 Singin' Bird
11 Holy Ground
12 South Australia
13 As I Roved Out
14 Mcpherson's Lament
15 The Wild Colonial Boy
16 Shoals of Herring
17 I Know Who Is Sick
18 Old Woman from Wexford
19 The Little Beggerman
20 The Butcher Boy
21 Blow Ya Winds
22 The Month Of January
23 The Lowlands Of Holland
24 Kitty Magee
25 As I Roved Out
26 The Foggy Dew
27 Mrs. McGrath
28 Bold O'Donahue
29 The Connemara Cradle Song
30 The Irish Rover
31 The Moonshiner (Live)
32 The Whistling Gypsy (Live)
33 My Johnny Lad (Live)
34 The Work of the Weavers (Live)
35 The Old Orange Flute (Live)
36 Brennan on the Moor (Live)
37 Tim Finnegan's Wake (Live)
38 Port Lairge (Live)
39 Haul Away Joe (Live)
40 Young Roddy Mccorley (Live)
41 A Jug of Punch (Live)
42 Reilly's Daughter (Live)
43 O Donnell Aboo
44 The Croppy Boy
45 The Rising Of The Moon
46 The Foggy Dew
47 The Minstrel Boy
48 The Wind That Shakes the Barley
49 Tipperary Far Away
50 Kelly the Boy from Killanne
51 Kevin Barry
52 Whack Fol the Diddle
53 The Men of the West
54 Eamonn an Chnoic
55 Nell Flaherty's Drake
56 Boulavogue
57 Whiskey You're the Devil
58 The Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe
59 The Moonshiner
60 Bold Thady Quill
61 Rosin the Bow
62 Finnegan's Wake
63 The Real Old Mountain Dew
64 Courting in the Kitchen
65 Mick McGuire
66 A Jug of Punch
67 Johnny McEldoo
68 Cruiscin Lan
69 Portlairge
70 The Parting Glass
71 Rennan On the Moor
72 The Work of the Weavers
73 The Stuttering Lovers
74 Paddy Doyle's Boots
75 The Maid of Fife-E-O
76 The Bard of Armagh
77 The Jug of Punch
78 Roddy McCorley
79 The Barnyards of Delgaty
80 The Castle of Dromore
81 The Bold Tennant Farmer
82 Ballinderry
83 Bungle Rye
84 Eileen Aroon
85 Johnny I Hardly Knew You
86 The Irish Rover (Live)
87 The Barnyards of Delgaty (Live)
88 October Winds (Live)
89 Courting in the Kitchen (Live)
90 The Jolly Tinker (Live)
91 Jug of This (Live)
92 Johnny Mceldoo (Live)
93 Whiskey, You're the Devil (Live)
94 Mountain Dew (Live)
95 When I Was Single (Live)
96 The 23rd of June (Live)




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