{"id":636,"date":"2013-07-28T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=636"},"modified":"2015-08-26T06:50:30","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T10:50:30","slug":"finnegans-wake","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=636","title":{"rendered":"Finnegan’s Wake"},"content":{"rendered":"

A ditty that came from the Irish music halls in the 1860s, and a must for “plastic Paddys” everywhere.\u00a0 I am informed that the song is a composition of John F. Poole, originally from Dublin but at this time a resident of NYC, and one of a group of Irish songwriters who circulated around Tony Pastor and his music hall scene<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Poole\u00a0took his inspiration for this song\u00a0from a popular\u00a0music\u00a0hall\u00a0song, “A Fine Ould Irish Gentleman<\/a>.”\u00a0\u00a0 I am also told that the irony is that he fell off a ladder, dying from his injuries!<\/p>\n

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Tim Finnegan lived in Watling street
\nA gentleman Irish, mighty odd!
\nHe had a brogue both rich and sweet
\nAnd to rise in the world he carried a hod
\nYou see he’d a sort of a tipplin’ way
\nWith a love for the liquor for Tim was born
\nAnd to send him on his way each day,
\nHe’d a drop of the craythur every morn’<\/p>\n

CHORUS:<\/b>
\nWhack fol’ the dah will ya dance to your partner<\/strong>
\n Round the floor your trotters shake<\/strong>
\n Isn’t it the truth I told ya?<\/strong>
\n Lots of fun at Finnegan’s wake!<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One morning Tim was rather full
\nHis head felt heavy which made him shake
\nHe fell off the ladder and he broke his skull
\nAnd they carried him home, his corpse to wake
\nRolled him up in a nice, clean sheet
\nThey laid him out upon the bed
\nWith a gallon of whiskey at his feet
\nAnd a barrel of porter at his head.<\/p>\n

Chorus:<\/b><\/p>\n

His friends assembled at the wake
\nAnd Mrs. Finnegan called for lunch\u00a0\u00a0 (lunch!<\/em>)
\nWell, first she brought them tea and cake
\nThen pipes, tobacco, and whiskey punch
\nBiddie O’Brien began to cry.
\n“Such a nice clean corpse did you ever see?”
\n“Aura Tim, auvreen! Why did you die?”
\n“Oh shut\u00a0yer gob!” says Biddie\u00a0McGee’<\/p>\n

Chorus:<\/strong><\/p>\n

When Magee O’Conner took up the job
\n“Oh Biddy,” says she, “you’re wrong, I’m sure.”
\nWell Biddy gave her a belt in the gob
\nAnd left her sprawling on the floor
\nThen the war did then engage
\n‘Twas woman to woman and man to man
\nShillelagh law was all the rage
\nAnd a row and a ruction soon began<\/p>\n

Chorus:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mickey Maloney ducked his head
\nWhen a bottle of whiskey flew at him
\nIt missed, and landing on the bed
\nThe liquor scattered over Tim
\nBeGod he revives; see how he rises!
\nTimothy risin’ from the bed!
\nSayin’ “Whirlin’ your whiskey around like blazes,”
\n“Thunder and lightening! Do ye think I’m dead?!”<\/p>\n

Chorus:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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