Tim Finnegan's Wake - The Tramps

Tim Finnegan lived in Watling street

A gentleman irishman mighty odd

He had a beautiful brogue so rich and sweet

And to rise in the world he carried a hod

You see he had a sort of a tippling way

With a love for the liquor poor Tim was born

And to help him on his work every day

He had 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 I told ye?

Lot’s of fun at Finnegan’s wake

One morning Tim was rather full

His head felt heavy, which made him shake

He fell from the ladder and broke his skull

So they carried him home his corpse to wake

They rolled him up in a nice clean sheet

And laid him out upon the bed

With a bottle of Whisky at his feet

And a gallon of porter at his head

His friends assembled at his wake

And missus Finnegan called for lunch

First they brought in tea and cake

The pipes, tobacco and whisky-punch

Then Biddy O’Brian began to cry

Such a nice clean corpse did you ever see?

Arrah!

Tim avourneen, why did you die?

Arrah!

Hould your gob sez Billy MaGee

Then Peggy O’Connor took up the job

Arrah!

Biddy, says she, Ye’re wrong I’m sure

But Biddy then gave her a belt on the gob

And left her sprawling on the floor

Each side in war did soon engage

It was woman to woman and man to man

Shillelah-law was all the rage

And a row and a ruction soon began

Then Mickey Maloney raised his head

When a bottle of whisky 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

Crying whirl your whisky around like blazes

Glory be to God, do ye think I’m dead