Chords for Finnegan's Wake - The Dubliners | Live at Vicar Street: The Dublin Experience (2006)

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_ _ _ Tim Finnegan lived [F] in Waterloo Street
Had a gentleman [C] Irish [G] and mighty Aussie
_ _ [C] He had a brother both [F] rich and sweet
_ But to rise in the world [G] he carried [C] a hut
_ Now Tim had a touch of the [F] Tibbler's way
_ [C] For the love of the liquor he [F] was born
Are we ready?
And [C] two!
At the manor's door he'd say the job of [G] the crazer
And [C] he'd go on and on and on
That's him, that's him, that's him _ _
That's him, that's him, that's him
That's him, that's him, that's him
That's him, that's him, that's him
_ _ One morning Tim [F] felt rather full
_ _ His own head felt heavy _
[Em] And it [G] made him shake
_ _ [C] He fell off a ladder
[Dm] And he broke his [F] skull _
So they carried him home
[G] His corpse [C] too weak
_ They wrapped him up in an ice-clean [F] sheet
_ [C] They laid him out _ [F] upon the bed
_ _ [C] With a knack of double whiskey on his feet
A [A] bottle of orange and a bottle of Spanish wine
He'd come down with his ex-girlfriend
And all the boys were telling [C] him
Go on to bed, you're going to bed now
And you'll [A] have a supper for that when [C] you get some sleep _ _
His friends [F] assembled at the wake _ _
When Mrs.
Finnegan, [C] she called for [G] lunch
_ _ _ First they brought in tea [F] and cakes
Then pipe tobacco [G] and whiskey [C] punch
_ Then to whittle him over
She began [F] to cry
_ [C] Such a lovely corpse did you ever [F] see
Are we ready?
_ [C] Tim got corny, white in his eyes
And [G] the whishes were [C] weak
When the coffee-man sneered
About your own [G] appearance
_ [C] Well, to me, it was a joke
[F] I was a ladson from that [C] big and white
You're out _ _ _
The wittle old Brian took [F] up the job
And in she she now [G] biddy
You're wrong, I'm sure
_ _ [C] When the other biddy
Gave her a box [F] in the cup
And it left her [G]
sprawling on [C] the floor
_ Then civil war did [F] then engage
_ [C] There was woman to woman
And man [F] to man
_ Sha [C]-ha-ha, they lead all this whole race
Now when the ladson soon came
That wife of the man
That's the partner
Now the [G] girls were trolling [C] him
And he was a man
And soon life [F] turned to ladson
While the living [C] get to waiting
Mickey Maloney, [F] he tucked his head
_ _ One a naggin' of whiskey
[G] It flew at him
When [C] he tucked
And it falling [F] on the bed
The whiskey, it [G] scattered over [C] till _
He died, he revived
_ _ See how [C] he rises
_ It's infinite in rising
And [F] dead, _ _ dead [G] Say it
With a lot of whiskey in him
Like this, put him to use
See [C] you're dead, like put him down
When you're not seein' your partner
Around the floor, you're trolling him
While the living get to wait
And [F] now it's a ladson
While the [C] living get to wait
Like put him down
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_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] While the living get to wait _ _ _ _ _ _
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