Artist: | The Dubliners (English) |
User: | Klaus Peter |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
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Comment: | - |
Finnegan's Wake
This a comical Irish song from around 1850s,
this is the song that James Joyce set his
masterpiece ''Finnegans Wake''. The song itself
was brought back to life by The Dubliners.
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1. Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin Street,
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A gentle Irishman mighty odd,
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He had a tongue both rich and sweet,
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An' to rise in the world he carried a hod.
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But Tim had a sort of a tipplers way,
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With the love for the liquor poor Tim was born
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And to send him on his way each day,
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He'd a drop of the craythur every morn
Chorus:
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Whack fol the dah will ya dance to yer partner
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Around the floor with yer trotters shake
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Isn't it the truth I told you?
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Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake
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2. One morning Tim was rather full,
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His head felt heavy which made him shake
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He fell from a ladder and he broke his skull,
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And they carried him home his corpse to wake
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Oh, they rapped him up in a nice clean sheet,
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And they laid him out upon the bed
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With a bottle of whiskey at his feet
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And a barrel of porter at his head.
Chorus:
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Whack fol the dah will ya dance to yer partner
F G7
Around the floor with yer trotters shake
C Am
Isn't it the truth I told you?
F G7 C
Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake
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3. Well his friends assembled at the wake,
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And Mrs Finnegan called for lunch
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At first she brought them tay and cakes,
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Then pipes, tobacco and brandy punch.
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Then Widow Malone began to cry,
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"Such a lovely corpse, did you ever see,
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Tim avourneen, why did you die?",
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"Will ye hould your gob?" said Molly McGee.
Chorus:
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Whack fol the dah will ya dance to yer partner
F G7
Around the floor with yer trotters shake
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Isn't it the truth I told you?
F G7 C
Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake
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4. Oh well Mary Murphy took up the job,
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"Biddy" says she "you're wrong, I'm sure"
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Well Biddy gave her a belt in the gob
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And left her sprawling on the floor.
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Then civil war did soon engage,
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T'was woman to woman and man to man
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Shillelagh law was all the rage,
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And a row and a ruction soon began.
Chorus:
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Whack fol the dah will ya dance to yer partner
F G7
Around the floor with yer trotters shake
C Am
Isn't it the truth I told you?
F G7 C
Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake
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5. Well Mickey Maloney ducked his head,
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When a bottle of whiskey flew at him,
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He ducked, and landing on the bed,
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The whiskey scattered over Tim.
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Bedad he revives, see how he rises,
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Tim Finnegan rising in the bed,
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Saying "Twiddle your whiskey around like blazes,
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Thundering Jaysus, did ye think I'm dead?"
Chorus:
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Whack fol the dah will ya dance to yer partner
F G7
Around the floor with yer trotters shake
C Am
Isn't it the truth I told you?
F G7 C
Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake
C Am
Whack fol the dah will ya dance to yer partner
F G7
Around the floor with yer trotters shake
C Am
Isn't it the truth I told you?
F G7 C
Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake