Chords for Seamus Kennedy ~ Finnegan's Wake

A song called Finnegan's Wake.
_ You know what a wake is, don't you?
[Ab] _ It's much like this evening, only [C] happier.
_ [Gm] _ _ [G] Now what we do at home is when somebody dies, we put them in a coffin,
wheel them into the middle of the living room, send out for a couple of barrels of Guinness,
a couple of barrels of harp, a couple of bottles of Bushmills whiskey, some sandwiches,
and we use the dead person as a centerpiece.
_ We start a party all around them, with [F] everybody singing and [G] drinking and dancing
and lying about what a great guy he was, and how good he looks with that wonderful tan,
that trip to Florida did him a world of good.
_ The [Eb] difference between an Irish wake and [C] an Irish wedding, one [Eb] less drunk. _ _ _
Now what I need you to, oh my goodness, you're wearing [Ab] the Scottish saltire.
[G] We've got Scottish people [C] over, you might want to sit over [G] here with them
and don't be mingling with the Irish folks, okay?
All Scots people, right there.
_ _ _ [C] _ _ You're half and half, half what?
[B] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ [F] _ _ [G] _ Half Irish and half Scottish.
Oh, you like to get drunk and don't like [Bb] to pay for it. _ _
_ _ _ [Gb] Well, I would definitely sit over with them.
Now _ what I need you to do on this Finnegan's [A] Wake song,
I want you to clap [E] along in time to the music, well maybe not you,
then [G]
stop when I stop, okay? _ _ _
It's a test of [B] reflexes.
_ _ [G] _ _
This poor woman, [N] she's been the brunt of my jokes this evening for clapping and keeping [Eb] rhythm. _ _ _ _
[D] Look, she's _ [G] starting to cry now. _
Put that lip away before somebody [Eb] walks on it and just, there you [G] go.
_ _ _ [Bb] Finnegan's Wake. _
Tim [Gm] Finnegan lived in Waterloo Street, a gentleman Irish [F] mighty odd.
_ [Bb] He had a [G] road both rich and [Eb] sweet, and a [G] rise in the world he [Bb] carried on.
[Gm] Tim had a sort of a chippler's way, with a love for the liquor he was born. _
To help a [G] man his work each [Eb] day, he'd drop in the [Bb] crater every morn.
Wack-a [Gm]-ba-da-na, that's [Eb] the art, is well to [G] flow your trotter [Bb] shake.
[Gm] Wasn't it a bit too [Eb] late?
Oh, you lot's [Gm] a fun that Finnegan's Wake.
That's where you're supposed to stop.
[Em] _
Okay, what I'm going to do to make sure you all stop at the same time.
[G] My goodness, one guy and three gorgeous women. _
[Eb] How does he do it? _ _ _ _
[D] You a Mormon? _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Gb] Okay, [Ab] right.
Whoever keeps clapping this [Gb] time after everybody's stopped,
has to go and buy a [Abm] round of drinks for the table that he or [G] she is at,
or for the people that you're with.
[Bb] _ _ _ [Gm] One morning Tim was rather [Eb] full, his head felt [Fm] heavy which made him [Bb] shake.
Fell [Gm] off a ladder and he broke his skull, and they carried him home [Bb] his corpse to wake.
They [Gm] wrapped him up in a nice clean sheet, laid him out upon the bed.
With a barrel of whiskey at his [Eb] feet, and a mug of [Bb] porter at his head.
Quack, pull [Gm] it out, it's [Eb] Steve Hargis.
Well to [G] flow your trotter [Bb] shake.
[Gm] Wasn't it a bit too late?
Oh, you lot's a fun that Finnegan's Wake.
[F] Oh, who did it?
Over here. _
Turn them in, get a [G] beer.
_ Got to be a Judas would turn a [D] friend in for a drink, I [Eb] know I would.
_ _ [Gm] _ _ [A]
Okay, whoever keeps clapping this time after [G] everybody's stopped,
has to buy a round of drinks for the entire section right here.
[Bb] _ _ _ The guests assembled [Eb] at the wake when [F] Mrs.
Finnegan called for [N] lunch.
_ Lunch!
[G] You're all supposed to shout [Bb] lunch.
The guests assembled [Eb] at the wake when [F] Mrs.
Finnegan called for lunch.
[Gm] Lunch!
Kirstie brought them tea and cake, wipes tobacco and brandy, punch!
Punch!
[G] And the widow Malone began to cry.
Woo-hoo [A]-hoo-hoo-hoo!
That was very good.
But I'd like to hear some more [F] emotion.
_ [G] Listen people, work with me on this people, we can do this.
If you [Gb] just think emotion, emotion, emotion.
[F] _ Okay kiddies, this one's for the [Bb] money.
And the widow [Gm] Malone began to cry.
Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
Such a nice clean corpse did you ever see.
Tin of ornean wine in your diet.
[Bb] Old Jericho cried Molly McGee.
Black [Gm] Palladina, I don't see your barners well.
The floor, your trotters shake.
Was it in the truth I told you?
Lots of fun that Finnegan's wife.
Oh, the [A] old guy right here.
_ Yeah, [G] oh look, oh did you see what he did?
Oh the jerk.
He turned around, he clapped and then he tried to blame the woman sitting behind him.
He went like this.
_ _ It was you.
_ Round of drinks for the whole [Gm] section. _ _
_ [N] This next one's for you.
All you people who are paying attention and who stop when I stop.
I want you to listen for the person who keeps clapping.
_ [D] Then stand up and point at him. _
And say it was you, it [Ab] was you.
Nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah.
[G] _
And humiliate him so he won't do [Bb] it again.
_ _ _ [Gm]
Then Molly Malone takes up the job.
Maybe [F] she's a cheat, you're wrong I'm sure.
[Bb] [Gm] Maybe fetched her a belt in the gob.
Then left [Bb] her sprawling on the floor.
[Gm] Civil war did then engage.
Woman to woman and man to man.
She'll layly love all the [Eb] rage and her own eruption [Bb] soon begat.
Why call [Gm] it an odyssey [Eb] if our fears float the [G] floor?
Your daughter's [Bb] saying, was [Gm] it in the truth I told you?
Lots of fun that Finnegan's wife.
_ Who did it?
_ _ _ [Gb] The two guys on either side of you?
Okay.
_ _ [E] The politician? _ _
No.
_ It wasn't no, he's a [Gb] politician.
He had his hands in somebody else's pocket.
How could he be clapping?
_ [Gm] _ _
_ _ _ Sad verse.
Mickey Murphy ducked his head.
As a bottle [F] of whiskey flew at him.
It [Gm] missed him landing on the bed.
The [Bb] liquor scattered over Tim.
The daddy [Gm] revised, see how he rises.
Tim Linigan rising in the bed. _
Saying, where did her whiskey run?
[Eb] Like blaze of heat, a thundering [Bb] jizz.
Do you think I'm dead?
Why [Gm] call it an odyssey [Eb] if our fears float the [G] floor?
Your [Gm] daughter's saying, was it in the truth I told you?
Lots of fun that Finnegan's wife.
Why call it an odyssey if our fears [G] float the floor?
Your [Bb] daughter's saying, was [Gm] it in the truth I told you?
Lots of fun that Finnegan's wife.
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ We did it.
[E] _