Finnigan's Wake

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  Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin Street, a gentle Irishman, mighty odd;
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 He had a beautiful brogue both rich and sweet,
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 and to rise in the world he carried a    hod.
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 Now Tim had a sort of the tipplin' way, with a love of the liquor poor Tim was born,
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 And to help him on with his work each day, he'd a "drop of the cray-thur" every  morn
 

CHORUS:
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 Whack fol the darn O, dance to your partner  welt the floor, your trotters shake
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 Wasn't it the truth I told you, lots of fun at Finnegan's wake!
 
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 One morning Tim was rather full,
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 His head was heavy which made him shake;
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 He fell from the ladder and broke his skull,
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 They carried him home his corpse to  wake.
 
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 They rolled him up in a nice clean sheet,
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 And laid him out upon the bed, a gallon of whiskey at his feet,
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 And a barrel of porter at his head.   (sing the CHORUS)
 

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 His friends assembled at the wake, and Mrs. Finnegan called for lunch,
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 First they brought in tea and cake, then pipes, tobacco and whiskey punch.
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 Biddy O'Brien began to cry, "Such a nice clean corpse, did you ever see?
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 "O Tim Mavourneen, why did you die?" Arragh, hold your gob said Paddy McGhee!

 
(Sing the CHORUS) SOLO on Verse (Sing CHORUS)
       

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 Then Maggie O'Connor took up the job, "O Biddy," says she, "You're wrong, I'm sure",
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 Then Biddy she gave her a belt in the gob, and left her sprawling on the floor.
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 And then the war did soon engage, 'Twas woman to woman and man to man,
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 Shillelagh law was all the rage, and a row and a ruction soon be - gan.
                                                                                            (Sing The CHORUS)
 
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 Then Mickey Maloney ducked his head, when a noggin of whiskey flew at him,
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 It missed, and falling on the bed, the liquor scattered over Tim!
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 Tim revives! See how he raises! Timothy rising from the bed,
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 Says,"Whirl your whiskey 'round like blazes,
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 Thanum an Dhul! Did you think I was dead?" (Sing the CHORUS 2 X)