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