The Irish Rovers

The Irish Rovers - Finnegan’s Wake songtekst

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Tim Finnegan is een zogenaamde 'brick holder'. Dat is iemand die in de bouw de stenen naar de plek draagt waar ze gebruikt gaan worden. En Tim drinkt graag whiskey! Hij beklimt, niet helemaal nuchter, en ladder, maar valt eraf en is dood, denkt men. Ze brengen hem naar huis. Tijdens een wake giet men whiskey over zijn lichaam en Tim komt tot leven.

Het lied is een Iers-Amerikaanse 'comic ballad'.

Tim Finnegan lived in Walken' 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 cray-chur" every morn.

Whack fol the da O, dance to your partner
Welt the floor, your trotters shake;
Wasn't it the truth I told you?
Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake!

One morning 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 da O, dance to your partner
Welt the floor, your trotters shake;
Wasn't it the truth I told you?
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 Malone mourning: "why did you die?"
"Arragh, shut your gob" said Paddy McGhee!

Whack fol the da O, dance to your partner
Welt the floor, your trotters shake;
Wasn't it the truth I told you?
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 sprawling 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 falling on the bed
The liquor scattered over Tim!

Tim revives! See how he rises!
Timothy rising from the bed,
Saying, "Whirl your liquor around like blazes
Thundering Jaysus! Do you thunk I'm dead?"

Whack fol the da O, dance to your partner
Welt the floor, your trotters shake;
Wasn't it the truth I told you?
Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake!
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