Finnegans Wake Ukulele chords by The Clancy Brothers

Verse 1:
  C         Am        F        G
Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin Street, a gentle Irishman mighty odd
  C        Am         F          G     C
He had a brogue so rich and sweet, to rise in the world he carried a hod
  C          Am           C            Am
You see he'd a sort of a tippler's way, with the love for the liquor poor Tim was born
  C          Am          F          G   C
To help him on with his work each day, he'd a drop of the craythur every morn



Refrain:
C           Am          F         G
Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner, welt 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 2:
(single strum)
              Am    F               G
One mornin' Tim felt rather full, his head felt heavy which made him shake
  C                  Am       F          G     C
He fell from a ladder and he broke his skull, and they carried him home his corpse to wake
                  Am       C           Am
They rolled him up in a nice clean sheet, and they laid him out upon the bed
    C            Am     F        G   C
With a bucket of whiskey at his feet and a barrel of porter at his head

Refrain:
C           Am          F         G
Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner, welt 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 3:
(single strum)
  C            Am    F            G
His friends assembled at the wake, and Mrs. Finnegan called for lunch
C               Am     F        G    C
First she served them tea and cakes, then pipe tobaccy and whiskey punch
C           Am        C             Am
Biddy O'Brien began to cry, "What a nice clean corpse, did you ever see
Am       F             G    C
Tim avourneen, why did you die ", "Ah, to hell with your gob!" said Biddy McGee

Refrain:
C           Am          F         G
Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner, welt 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 4:
(single strum)
                 Am    F            G
Then Maggie O'Connor took up the job, "Oh Biddy" says she "you're wrong
I'm sure"
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Biddy gave her a belt in the gob and she left her sprawlin' on the floor
C                  C
Then the war did soon engage, t'was woman to woman and man to man
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Shillelagh law was all the rage and a row and a ruction soon began

Refrain:
C           Am          F         G
Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner, welt 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 5:
(single strum)
                Am      F             G
Then Mickey Maloney raised his head when the bucket of whiskey flew at him
               Am    F        G  C
It missed, and fallin' on the bed, the liquor scattered over Tim
     C          Am   C            Am
B'God he revives, see how he rises
Timothy risin' from the bed
    C               Am         F      G     C
Sayin' "Whirl your whiskey around like blazes
Thundering Jesus, do ye think I'm dead !"

Refrain:
C           Am          F         G
Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner welt 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 welt 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