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