Finnegan’s Wake

Finnegan’s Wake: Chords

    SOL
Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin Street
  RE7
A gentle Irishman, mighty odd
                 SOL
He'd a beautiful brogue so rich and sweet
       DO                             SOL
And to rise in the world he carried a hod
                                      DO
You see he'd a sort of the tipp' lin' way

With the love of the liquor, poor Tim was born
                             
And to help him on with his work each day
                                  SOL
He'd a drop of the craythur every morn

Whack fol the da, now, dance to your partner
                    RE
Welt the floor your trotters shake
SOL                   DO
Wasn't it the truth I tell you
               RE         SOL
Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake

    SOL                    DO
One mornin' Tim was rather full
                                    RE
His head felt heavy, which made him shake
   SOL                                   DO
He fell from the ladder and he broke his skull
                                        SOL
And they carried him home his corpse to wake
                                   DO
They rolled him up in a nice clean sheet
   
And laid him out upon the bed
                            
With a gallon of whiskey at his feet
                              SOL
And a barrel of porter at his head

Whack fol the da, now, dance to your partner
                    RE
Welt the floor your trotters shake
SOL                   DO
Wasn't it the truth I tell you
               RE         SOL
Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake

    SOL                      DO
His friends assembled at the wake
                             RE         
And Mrs. Finnegan called for lunch
SOL                           DO
First they brought in tay and cake
                                SOL
Then pipes, tobacco and whiskey punch
                       DO
Biddy O'Brien began to cry

"Such a nice clean corpse did you ever see?

Tim Mavourneen why did you die?"
                                   SOL
"Arrah hold your gob" said Paddy McGee

Whack fol the da, now, dance to your partner
                    RE
Welt the floor your trotters shake
SOL                   DO
Wasn't it the truth I tell you
               RE         SOL
Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake

     SOL                         DO
Then Maggie O'Connor took up the job
                                       RE
"O Biddy, " says she "you're wrong I'm sure"
SOL                          DO
Biddy gave her a belt in the gob
                              SOL
And left her sprawling on the floor
                        DO
Then the war did soon engage

It was woman to woman and man to man

Shillelagh law was all the rage
                               SOL
And a row and a ruction soon began

Whack fol the da, now, dance to your partner
                    RE
Welt the floor your trotters shake
SOL                   DO
Wasn't it the truth I tell you
               RE         SOL
Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake

     SOL                       DO
Then Mickey Maloney raised his head
                                 RE
When a bucket of whiskey flew at him
   SOL                       DO
It missed and falling on the bed
                          SOL
The liquor scattered over Tim

Tim revives, see how he rises
                        DO
Timothy rising from the bed
                     
Said "Whirl your whiskey around like blazes
                                   SOL
Thundering Jesus, do you think I'm dead?"

Whack fol the da, now, dance to your partner
                    RE
Welt the floor your trotters shake
SOL                   DO
Wasn't it the truth I tell you
               RE         SOL
Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake

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Pianoforte

Finnegan's Wake è un brano tratto dal repertorio folk irlandese, reinterpretata dai The Dubliners che la inseriscono nel loro album live omonimo pubblicato nel 1966. Si tratta della registrazione dei concerti tenuti al Gate Theatre di Dublino il 26 e il 27 aprile dello stesso anno, a soli quattro anni dalla loro formazione. La canzone è il brano d'apertura del disco e risale al 1864. Racconta la bizzarra vicenda di un muratore che, morendo in un incidente sul lavoro, resuscita il giorno dopo!

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Alberto Moneti

36 anni, polistrumentista: pianoforte, chitarra, batteria, clarinetto. Ha conseguito la licenza in teoria musicale e solfeggio presso il Conservatorio Cherubini di Firenze. Dal 1997 è organista presso la Basilica di Santa Maria del Sasso, a Bibbiena (AR).