Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem - Finnegan`s Wake

Tim Finnegan lived on Walken Street
a gentle Irishman tho mighty odd
he'd a beautiful brogue so rich and sweat
and to rise in the world he carried a hod
but Tim had a sort of a tippling' way
with the love of the liquor Tim was born
and to help him on his way each day
he'd a drop of the crather every morn

CHORUS
Whack for the hurrra dance your partner
round the floor ye trotters shake
isn't it the truth I tell you
lots of fun at Finegan's wake

One day when Tim was rather full
his head felt heavy which made him shake
he fell off a ladder and broke his skull
and they carried him off a corpse to wake
they carried him off in a nice clean sheet
and laid him out upon the bed
with a gallon of porter by his feet
and a noggin' of whiskey by his head CHORUS

His friends assembled at the wake
and Mrs. Finegan call for lunch (LUNCH!)
first they brought out tay and cakes
and pipes and tobacco and whiskey punch (PUNCH!)
then Biddy O'Brien began to cry
"such a lovely corpse have you ever seen"
Oh Tim Avoreen why did you did?"
"OH shut your gob!", said Biddy McGee CHORUS

Then Peggy O'Connor took up the job
"Oh Biddy" she said, "You're wrong I'm sure!"
Biddy gave her a belt in the gob
and sent her sprawling opon on floor
Each side in a war soon did engage
was woman to woman and man to man
Shillelagh law was all the rage
and a row and a ruction soon began CHORUS

Then Mickey Maloney ducked his head
when a noggin' of whiskey flew at him
it missed and landed on the bed
and the whiskey splattered all over Tim
"Begad! He revives! See how he rises!"
Tim avoreen leaping from the bed
running all around like blazes
"Thunderin' blazes! You think I'm Dead?" CHORUS

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[pennsy671]

It doesn't get any better than the Clancy brothers and Tommy Makem...

RIP Liam... Thanks for the memories

[luisrafael420]

thanks for puttin this on, its the exact version i was lookin for.

[newsmirna]

Like Willie Nelson, when the boys did a song they redefined how it was suposed to be performed.

[AingealDubh]

@TheTHEcoolchannel and Tommy Makem as well!!!

[TheTHEcoolchannel]

@pennsy671 I SAY WE POUR A BIT O' THAT WATER O' LIFE ON THE CLANCYS!

[thomaslawton1]

i miss my grandad which was his song

[gmancwB]

I had the pleasure of seeing these lads perform at Carnegie Hall, and years later at a bar down the Jersey Shore. They are sorely missed.

[Wolfiemouse]

Aw ... so sweet! !!!

[Wolfiemouse]

@pennsy671 Amen and amen.

[tbear7672]

I was driving to Alaska to take my first full time college teaching position and I had to drive straight from AZ to Anchorage Alaska and I must have played this tape a hundred times...every time i thought I was to tired to go on-in went M&C and presto changeo I was re-engerized! God bless these boys!

[Cep2693]

"He'd a beautiful brogue so rich and sweat"

Sweat?

Do you mean sweet, perhaps?

Grief.

[Naruto6800004]

my name is tim and it's halarius how they pertrayed him as a drunk