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Tim Finnegans Wake by The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem - Guitar Chords

Artist The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem How to play the guitar chord C.jpg How to play the guitar chord Am.jpg How to play the guitar chord F.jpg How to play the guitar chord G.jpg

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Version 1
            [Verse 1]
    C                 Am               F               G
Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin Street, a gentle Irishman mighty odd
       C                   Am                 F                    G         C
He'd a beautiful 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 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]
    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 gallon 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]
    C                 Am               F             G
His friends assembled at the wake, and Mrs. Finnegan called for lunch
C                     Am                 F                  G       C
First they brought in tay and cake, then pipes, tobacco and whiskey punch
C               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?", "Arrah hold your gob!" said Paddy 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]
     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

[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]
     C              Am                     F                 G
Then Mickey Maloney raised 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
Tim revives, see how he rises, Timothy rising from the bed
      C                  Am                  F                       G         C
Said "Whirl your whiskey around like blazes, Thundering Jesus, do ye think I'm dead, 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 
        

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