Tim Finnegan lived in watling A gentle Irishman, odd He'd a beautiful brogue so rich and To rise in the world, he a hod
See, he'd sort of a way love for the liquor poor Tim was born To help him on with his each day He'd a drop of the craythur every
fol, de, dah Now, dance to your Welt the floor, your shake Wasn't it the truth, told ye lots of fun At Finnegan's
One morning Tim got rather His head felt which made him shake Fell a ladder and he broke his skull They carried him home, his corpse to
Rolled him up in a nice sheet And laid him out the bed A of whiskey at his feet And a bottle of at his head
fol, de, dah Now, dance to partner Welt the floor, your trotters it the truth, they told ye lots of fun At Finnegan's
His assembled at the wake And misses Finnegan called for First she in tea and cake pipes, tobacco and whiskey punch
Biddy began to cry Such a nice clean corpse, did you see? Tim mavourneen, why did you Arrah, your gob, said Patty Megee
fol, de, dah Now, to your partner the floor, your trotters shake Wasn't it the truth, they told ye of fun At Finnegan's
Maggie O'Connor took up the job "Arrah", biddy says, she wrong, I'm sure Biddy gave her a belt on the gob And left her sprawling on the
There the war did engage Woman to and man to man law was all the rage An a row and a ruction soon
fol, de, dah Now, dance to your the floor, your trotters shake Wasn't it the truth, they told ye of fun At wake
Then Maloney raised his head When a of whiskey flew at him It him falling on the bed The liquor over Tim
Tim revives, see how he Timothy from the bed Whirl your whiskey around Like blazes an Dhul Do ye I'm dead?