Finnegan’s Wake

Tim Finnegan lived in Watling Street
 A gentleman Irishman mighty odd
 He seen a brogue so soft and sweet
 And to rise in the world he carried the hod
 Tim had a sort of a tipplin' way
 With a love of the liquor now he was born
 To help him on with his work each day
 Had a "drop of the craythur" every morn
 Whack fol-the-dah, oh dance to your partner
 Welt the floor, your trotters shake
 Wasn't it the truth I told ya?
 Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake
 One mornin' Tim felt rather full
 His head felt heavy which made him shake
 Fell from a ladder and he burst his skull
 So they carried him home his corpse to wake
 Rolled him up in a nice clean sheet
 Laid him out upon the bed
 A gallon of whiskey at his feet
 A barrel of porter at his head
 Whack fol-the-dah, oh dance to your partner
 Welt the floor, your trotters shake
 Wasn't it the truth I told ya?
 Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake
 His friends assembled at the wake
 And Mrs. Finnegan called for lunch
 First they brung 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?"
 "Aarrgh, shut your gob" said Paddy McGee
 Whack fol-the-dah, oh dance to your partner
 Welt the floor, your trotters shake
 Wasn't it the truth I told ya?
 Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake
 Patty O'Connor took up the job
 "Ah Biddy," says she, "You're wrong, I'm sure"
 Biddy gave her a belt in the gob
 Then left her sprawlin' on the floor
 Then the war did soon enrage
 Woman to woman and man to man
 Shillelagh-law was all the rage
 And a row and a ruction soon began
 Mickey Maloney lowered his head
 And a bottle of whiskey flew at him
 Missed, and fallin' on the bed
 The liquor scattered over Tim
 Tim revives! See how he rises!
 Timothy risin' from the bed
 Sayin': "Whirl your liquor around like blazes
 Thunderin' Jaysus! Do you think I'm dead?"
 Whack fol-the-dah, oh dance to your partner
 Welt the floor, your trotters shake
 Wasn't it the truth I told ya?
 Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake