Finnegan's Wake Uke tab by Traditional Irish

4 Chords used in the song: F, Dm, A#, C

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Year:  2018
Difficulty: 
3.25
(Beginner)
Key: F, DmChords
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Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin Street,
A# chordA# C chordC
a gentle Irishman mighty odd
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He had a brogue both rich and sweet,
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an' to rise in the world he carried a hod
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You see he'd a sort of a tipplers way
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with the love for liquor he was born
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To help him on his way each day,
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he'd a drop of the craychur every morn


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Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner
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'round the floor yer trotters shake
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Wasn't it the truth I told you?
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Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake


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One morning Tim got rather full,
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his head felt heavy which made him shake
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Fell from a ladder and broke his skull,
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and they carried him home his corpse to wake
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Rolled him up in a nice clean sheet,
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and laid him out upon the bed
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A chordA bottle of whiskey at his feet
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and a barrel of porter at his head


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Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner
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'round the floor yer trotters shake
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Wasn't it the truth I told you?
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Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake


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His friends assembled at the wake,
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and Mrs Finnegan called for lunch
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First she brought in tea and cake,
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then pipes, tobacco and whiskey punch
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Biddy O'Brien began to cry, "Such a
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nice clean corpse, did you ever see,
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Tim avourneen, why did you die?",
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"Arragh, shut your gob" said Paddy McGee


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Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner
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'round the floor yer trotters shake
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Wasn't it the truth I told you?
A# chordA# C chordC F chordF
Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake


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Patty O'Connor took up the job,
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"Biddy" says she "you're wrong, I'm sure"
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Biddy gave her a belt in the gob,
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then left her sprawlin' on the floor
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Then the war did soon enrage,
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t'was woman to woman and man to man
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Shillelagh law was all the rage
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and a row and a ruction soon began


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Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner
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'round the floor yer trotters shake
F chordF Dm chordDm
Wasn't it the truth I told you?
A# chordA# C chordC F chordF
Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake


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Mickey Maloney lowered his head
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and a bottle of whiskey flew at him
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It missed, and falling on the bed,
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the liquor scattered over Tim
[down strum]
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Tim revives, see how he rises,
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Timothy rising from the bed
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Saying "Whirl your liquor around like blazes,
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thunderin' jaysus, do ye 'ink I'm dead?"


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Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner
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'round the floor yer trotters shake
F chordF Dm chordDm
Wasn't it the truth I told you?
A# chordA# C chordC F chordF
Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake

F chordF Dm chordDm
Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner
A# chordA# C chordC
'round the floor yer trotters shake
F chordF Dm chordDm
Wasn't it the truth I told you?
A# chordA# C chordC F chordF
Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake

Uke tab by , 09 Aug 2022

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