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Finnegans Wake by The Dubliners - Guitar Chords
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Version 1
Artist: Dubliners
Song: Finnegans Wake
Tuning: Standard
[Verse]
C Am F G
Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin Street, a gentle Irishman mighty odd
C Am F G C
He had a brogue both rich and sweet, an' to rise in the world he carried a hod
C Am C Am
You see he'd a sort of a tipplers way with the love for the liquor poor Tim was born
C Am F G C
To help him on his way each day, he'd a drop of the craythur every morn
[Chorus]
C Am F G
Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner 'round the floor yer trotters shake
C Am F G C
Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake
[Verse]
C Am F G
One morning Tim got rather full, his head felt heavy which made him shake
C Am F G C
Fell from a ladder and he broke his skull, and they carried him home his corpse to wake
C Am C Am
Rolled him up in a nice clean sheet, and laid him out upon the bed
C Am F G C
A bottle of whiskey at his feet and a barrel of porter at his head
[Chorus]
C Am F G
Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner 'round the floor yer trotters shake
C Am F G C
Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake
C Am F G
His friends assembled at the wake, and Mrs Finnegan called for lunch
C Am F G C
First she brought in tay and cake, then pipes, tobacco and whiskey punch
Am C Am
Biddy O'Brien began to cry, "Such a nice clean corpse, did you ever see,
C Am F G C
Tim avourneen, why did you die?", "Will ye hould your gob?" said Paddy McGee
[Chorus]
C Am F G
Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner 'round the floor yer trotters shake
C Am F G C
Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake
C Am F G
Then Maggie O'Connor took up the job, "Biddy" says she "you're wrong, I'm sure"
C Am F G C
Biddy gave her a belt in the gob and left her sprawling on the floor
C Am C Am
Then the war did soon engage, t'was woman to woman and man to man
C Am F G C
Shillelagh law was all the rage and a row and a ruction soon began
[Chorus]
C Am F G
Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner 'round the floor yer trotters shake
C Am F G C
Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake
C Am F G
Mickey Maloney ducked his head when a bucket of whiskey flew at him
C Am F G C
It missed, and falling on the bed, the liquor scattered over Tim
C Am C Am
Bedad he revives, see how he rises, Timothy rising from the bed
C Am F G C
Saying "Whittle your whiskey around like blazes, t'underin' blazes, do ye think I'm dead?"
[Chorus]
C Am F G
Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner 'round the floor yer trotters shake
C Am F G C
Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake
C Am F G
Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner 'round the floor yer trotters shake
C Am F G C
Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake
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