If you grew up in the household that I grew up in then you knew all these great Irish Catholic ballads, hearing them many decades later brings tears to my eyes and goosebumps to my skin. LONG LIVE THE IRISH.
Tim Finnegan lived in Watling Street A gentleman Irishman mighty odd He seen a brogue so soft and sweet And to rise in the world he carried the hod Tim had a sort of a tipplin' way With a love of the liquor now he was born To help him on with his work each day Had a "drop of the craythur" every morn Whack fol-the-dah, oh dance to your partner Welt the floor, your trotters shake Wasn't it the truth I told ya? Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake One mornin' Tim felt rather full His head felt heavy which made him shake Fell from a ladder and he burst his skull So they carried him home his corpse to wake Rolled him up in a nice clean sheet Laid him out upon the bed A gallon of whiskey at his feet A barrel of porter at his head Whack fol-the-dah, oh dance to your partner Welt the floor, your trotters shake Wasn't it the truth I told ya? Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake His friends assembled at the wake And Mrs. Finnegan called for lunch First they brung in tea and cake Then pipes, tobacco and whiskey punch Biddy O'Brien began to cry "Such a nice clean corpse, did you ever see? Tim mavourneen, why did you die?" "Aarrgh, shut your gob" said Paddy McGee Whack fol-the-dah, oh dance to your partner Welt the floor, your trotters shake Wasn't it the truth I told ya? Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake Patty O'Connor took up the job "Ah Biddy, " says she, "You're wrong, I'm sure" Biddy gave her a belt in the gob Then left her sprawlin' on the floor Then the war did soon enrage Woman to woman and man to man Shillelagh-law was all the rage And a row and a ruction soon began Mickey Maloney lowered his head And a bottle of whiskey flew at him Missed, and fallin' on the bed The liquor scattered over Tim Tim revives! See how he rises! Timothy risin' from the bed Sayin': "Whirl your liquor around like blazes Thunderin' Jaysus! Do you think I'm dead?" Whack fol-the-dah, oh dance to your partner Welt the floor, your trotters shake Wasn't it the truth I told ya? Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake
Tim Finnegan lived in Walken' Street A gentleman Irishman mighty odd; He seen a brogue so soft and sweet And to rise in the world he carried the hod Tim had a sort of a tipplin' way With a love of the liquor now he was born To help him on with his work each day Had a "drop of the cray-chur" every morn Whack fol the da O, dance to your partner Welt the floor, your trotters shake; Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake! One mornin' Tim felt rather full His head felt heavy which made him shake; Fell from a ladder and he burst his skull So they carried him home his corpse to wake Rolled him up in a nice clean sheet Laid him out upon the bed; A gallon of whiskey at his feet A barrel of porter at his head Whack fol the da O, dance to your partner Welt the floor, your trotters shake; Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake!
I saw them do this live in Ann Arbor Michigan about 20 years ago... the original line up too! Absolutely fantastic night! So much shouting and dancing and clapping and hollering! Would love to relive it...
This has got to be one of my all time favorite Irish folk songs. I'm still trying to learn to play it on the concertina but I've got the musical talent of a brick so it's slow going...lol. Great song though. Makes a lot more sense now that I can see the lyrics.
In this version of Finnegan's story, a drunkard at his wake spills whiskey onto Finnegan's corpse, thus waking him up. So in this instance, Finnegan drinks at his own funeral...
yo this song got everything the drink, the wake, the women fighting the men fighting timmothy finnegan waking up from the dead like "yo wtf is happening i was having a good sleep and yall ruined my shit" its so irish.
@@daltonm2704 their leaders were interesting, Vivian graves we never got to see her character fully develop she was more of a politician than a leader, chase Graves was more of an action man than a politician, lillywhites biggest problem was he wanted to be liked he was more of a cross between the two of them.
There were fighters, blighters, Irish dynamiters there was beer, gin, whiskey, wine and cake ("Not much cake!") There were men of high positions, there were Irish politicians, and they all got drunk at Steve O'Donnell's wake. A lesser known Irish dude.
Idk about where you guys are living, but this makes 2 years in a row with no St Patrick's Day parades (we have 2 in buffalo Ny) & it really sucks. So we gotta go bar hoping all weekend....the festivities begin at 1:00 pm EST. Happy St. Patty's to all!
An English man, an Scottish man and an Irish man walk into a bar they each order a pint of Guinness but a fly falls in all three glasses, the English man pushes the pint away in disgust and orders another, the Scotsman picks the fly out and drinks his Guinness, the Irishman
If my fueneral is not as wild as Finnegan's wake I will rise from the dead and take the party planner with me.
Facts
If your funeral is wild as Finnegan's, you will surely rise from the dead anyway!
Like Tim did?? Legendary
I'm Irish. We sing this at parties, weddings, christenings and just nights at the local pub and of course a funeral.
The ability of an entire culture to laugh and dance in the face of death is awesome.
Yep nothing like taking a shot of Jameson off of one of your relatives casket in remembrance..
Do you also pour whiskey on the corpse?
@@jareththegoblinking3191 no, that's a waste of the whiskey!
That's a ton of words to memorize you guys can do it without a prompter?
If my funeral isn't this lit don't come.
that what happens at irish wakes my last name is malone. we serve alchohol
Ok, I'll be there, but I promise absolutely not to ejaculate. Not in the casket, anyway.
@@path1024 I'd be insulted if you didn't
If someone doesn't start a fight at my funeral, I'm not dying
I ONLY JUST NOW LEARNED THAT I HAVE A THEME SONG. HOLY SHIT
You also have a fucking incomprehensible book LOL
If your name is actually Tim Finnegan then that's awesome
Tim Finnegan tim you should make this your ringtone
lol are u even irish?
Best name ever.
You don't have to be Irish to enjoy awesome Irish songs! 👍👍🤘😎🎉💪
What's the difference between an Irish funeral and an Irish wedding?
At the Irish funeral, there's one person that isn't drinking.
Word
so Ireland's basically Bavaria then?
This is so underrated
CORPSE DOESN'T DRINK AS MUCH AS THE GROOM
I'd say not much
If you grew up in the household that I grew up in then you knew all these great Irish Catholic ballads, hearing them many decades later brings tears to my eyes and goosebumps to my skin. LONG LIVE THE IRISH.
Much more enjoyable and comprehensible than the book. 10/10
Therapist: you can't fix mental damage
Me: *AIGHT BET*
TELL THAT DOCTOR TAE SHUT HIS GOB!
Tim Finnegan lived in Watling Street
A gentleman Irishman mighty odd
He seen a brogue so soft and sweet
And to rise in the world he carried the hod
Tim had a sort of a tipplin' way
With a love of the liquor now he was born
To help him on with his work each day
Had a "drop of the craythur" every morn
Whack fol-the-dah, oh dance to your partner
Welt the floor, your trotters shake
Wasn't it the truth I told ya?
Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake
One mornin' Tim felt rather full
His head felt heavy which made him shake
Fell from a ladder and he burst his skull
So they carried him home his corpse to wake
Rolled him up in a nice clean sheet
Laid him out upon the bed
A gallon of whiskey at his feet
A barrel of porter at his head
Whack fol-the-dah, oh dance to your partner
Welt the floor, your trotters shake
Wasn't it the truth I told ya?
Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake
His friends assembled at the wake
And Mrs. Finnegan called for lunch
First they brung in tea and cake
Then pipes, tobacco and whiskey punch
Biddy O'Brien began to cry
"Such a nice clean corpse, did you ever see?
Tim mavourneen, why did you die?"
"Aarrgh, shut your gob" said Paddy McGee
Whack fol-the-dah, oh dance to your partner
Welt the floor, your trotters shake
Wasn't it the truth I told ya?
Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake
Patty O'Connor took up the job
"Ah Biddy, " says she, "You're wrong, I'm sure"
Biddy gave her a belt in the gob
Then left her sprawlin' on the floor
Then the war did soon enrage
Woman to woman and man to man
Shillelagh-law was all the rage
And a row and a ruction soon began
Mickey Maloney lowered his head
And a bottle of whiskey flew at him
Missed, and fallin' on the bed
The liquor scattered over Tim
Tim revives! See how he rises!
Timothy risin' from the bed
Sayin': "Whirl your liquor around like blazes
Thunderin' Jaysus! Do you think I'm dead?"
Whack fol-the-dah, oh dance to your partner
Welt the floor, your trotters shake
Wasn't it the truth I told ya?
Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake
This song is just simply beautiful
I want desperately to learn this but my mouth can't sad the words fast enough.
You need to be Irish
It takes practice lol
i sang this to my friends at a sleepover and they were suprised i could sing it
@@Calder_54 I used to dance to this all the time as a kid, not Irish dancing though lol
Keep trying. I got it down mostly.
Music and alcohol is their life's blood. My hats off to ye.
Tim Finnegan lived in Walken' Street
A gentleman Irishman mighty odd;
He seen a brogue so soft and sweet
And to rise in the world he carried the hod
Tim had a sort of a tipplin' way
With a love of the liquor now he was born
To help him on with his work each day
Had a "drop of the cray-chur" every morn
Whack fol the da O, dance to your partner
Welt the floor, your trotters shake;
Wasn't it the truth I told you?
Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake!
One mornin' Tim felt rather full
His head felt heavy which made him shake;
Fell from a ladder and he burst his skull
So they carried him home his corpse to wake
Rolled him up in a nice clean sheet
Laid him out upon the bed;
A gallon of whiskey at his feet
A barrel of porter at his head
Whack fol the da O, dance to your partner
Welt the floor, your trotters shake;
Wasn't it the truth I told you?
Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake!
When he says "a nice clean sheet" i hear "an ice-cream sheet".
Sydkicvision42 me too!
yup, even though I know what he actually says
love ice creams! the only dairy I can have!
Izombie brought me here I love this song now
sameeeee i just came here from watching that episode. i’ve seen the show 5 times 😅😅
Same
@@abbymarie477 Im on my 2nd watch through and I was looking forward to hearing this song again so I could find it.
Underrated show ❤️
I'm Irish that's what brought me here
for anyone wondering, this is the perfect song to play in increments while your friend is presenting in class
funniest shit we’ve ever done
please elaborate
please for the love of god elaborate
........ Wut?
Speak to us child
I saw them do this live in Ann Arbor Michigan about 20 years ago... the original line up too! Absolutely fantastic night! So much shouting and dancing and clapping and hollering! Would love to relive it...
fun
AGREED ME BY'E, LET THE WHISKEY FLOW!!!
is that the awesome concert where Joe was there on Button Key Accordion? Great vid.
Shrewby Spitzmaus cool dude
Shrewby Spitzmaus that is so awsome
This has got to be one of my all time favorite Irish folk songs. I'm still trying to learn to play it on the concertina but I've got the musical talent of a brick so it's slow going...lol. Great song though. Makes a lot more sense now that I can see the lyrics.
Keep at it, Tony. I am taking up the Irish drum soon, it will be slow and tedious, but I will keep at it.
All Honesty
my favorite is Drunken Sailor
All Honesty I am trying to sign the song
All Honesty I am trying to learn to sing it with a Irish brouge
l've picked up the concertina recently, any chance you'd have some sheet music l could steal from you?
I love how the Irish can be so cheerful even at a funeral.
You're right
I plan on getting shot out of a cannon across the field for my funeral
Its because we don't have to live in Ireland anymore
Well everyone will be crying like a baby when they sing O Danny Boy though.
@@liamkavanagh8573 Do you mean "Irish americans"? They're not Irish, we don't want them
"did you die?" Aye. But then I had to drink!
Q) What's the difference between an Irish wake & an Irish funeral?
A) there's one less drunk at the wake.
😊
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The other guy stole it
In this version of Finnegan's story, a drunkard at his wake spills whiskey onto Finnegan's corpse, thus waking him up. So in this instance, Finnegan drinks at his own funeral...
@@sylvo330 In this instance he's also not actually dead.
@@galaxyanimal na, really?
I'm super Irish and I feel proud when I here this song. Anyone else?
Wow, super Irish? That's the best kind!
@@hamarbiljungskile8953 Fella flies around Dublin with a pint of Guinness and a spud emblazoned on his chest
Saw them do this live in the early 90's. Talk about bringing the house down! Great memories.
I've decided to undertake the impossible task of learning this song by heart thank God I can talk fast
I was very young when I first heard them, but I still love them!
yo this song got everything the drink, the wake, the women fighting the men fighting timmothy finnegan waking up from the dead like "yo wtf is happening i was having a good sleep and yall ruined my shit" its so irish.
The Irish know how to throw a party, that's for sure!
Only the irish can make a tragedy sound happy
It wasn’t a tragedy, Tim was just so drunk they thought he was dead. He was just having one hell of a nap
Well, yeah, and it's a stereotype, but it's not entirely inaccurate either to have a grand ol time at an Irish Catholic wake
It's 'Tim mó mhuinín' (pronounced mo vorneen) and it means my dear /love
Can you speak the language? Tiss a beautiful tongue.
gotta love The Irish Rovers
If my wake doesn't have booze and massive free for all, it will be waste.
You mean theyll be a waste.
I was really moved by this beautiful song. Wish this song will be played in my funeral and whisky will be poured on my body...!
"Twas woman to woman and man to man"
Oh that's the way Tim liked it!🤣
I never knew I was capable of laughing at a song as much as I did here
The Irish Rovers!! Best celtic group in history
I came here because of iZombie and the fact that I’m Irish and now I’m obsessed
" Telling an American female she cannot have chocolate is like telling an Irish Man he cannot have alcohol. " ~Scarlet Acid 2015
Scarlett Acid same with a Scotsmen
Donals Zahnke Ahaha...
Scarlett Acid lol
We can drink- but Not drive while intoxicated. We can also dye our hair in odd shades of green or orange or white!❤
Donals: except the Scot wants the Irish man to pay for it. Thumb Up For Sure.
iZombie, thanks alot :P
Jaana L. i know right :D
Jaana L. 🙏 just finished that episode 😂😂
same here I saw the episode on Wednesday( June 14) and have had the song in my head since then
me too
i had to pause the ep and search this song
iZombie made me want to hear this song again.
awesome song, god bless the irish
“Thunderin’ Jaysus” reminds me of my Gram.
I've known this song my whole life. One among many old tunes
these zombie mercenaries really like their irish song...TWICE they danced to it
just finding out I have a intro song to my own life
What a cheerful music. I love it. Greetings from The Netherlands!
Moral is, have fun at Finnegan's wake lol
Lots of fun, in fact!
Awesome version of this song
The Irish sure have learned to steer into the skid when it comes to national stereotypes.
That's cuz they just don't care enough about who thinks what about them.
Its like one of those weird irish birthday parties with lots of partner dancing lol
My new favourite
Me when the boss of the private zombie military I work for dies
izombie right. nah fill more graves was the best and chase graves was one of my favourite characters
@@whyzdies2617 man i hate chase graves lmao.
@@daltonm2704 their leaders were interesting, Vivian graves we never got to see her character fully develop she was more of a politician than a leader, chase Graves was more of an action man than a politician, lillywhites biggest problem was he wanted to be liked he was more of a cross between the two of them.
Pretty cool Irish tune
😄 Es mi canción irlandesa favorita 🇲🇽
Really looking forward to my wake now
On 2 of our albums, "Hardstuff" open.spotify.com/album/4hzPSJP68imGEiF3VB4h9Z and "50 Years" open.spotify.com/album/4myZOIXY0re1KKU0JHbhSa
I wish we were still allowed to live this happily. 😊
thanks Izombie
Just so's ye be knowin', it's like I tol' me Doc, I be quitin' drinkin' an' smokin' two weeks AFTER I'm dead!
There were fighters, blighters, Irish dynamiters there was beer, gin, whiskey, wine and cake ("Not much cake!") There were men of high positions, there were Irish politicians, and they all got drunk at Steve O'Donnell's wake. A lesser known Irish dude.
Proud to be Irish and pray one day my funeral can be half as fun!
Idk about where you guys are living, but this makes 2 years in a row with no St Patrick's Day parades (we have 2 in buffalo Ny) & it really sucks. So we gotta go bar hoping all weekend....the festivities begin at 1:00 pm EST.
Happy St. Patty's to all!
proud to be partly irish :D
LET THE WHISKEY FLO!!!!
World class fiddle 🎶
Bar's are all closed so I guess we're all just looping this huh
Love this😍😍😍
An English man, an Scottish man and an Irish man walk into a bar they each order a pint of Guinness but a fly falls in all three glasses, the English man pushes the pint away in disgust and orders another, the Scotsman picks the fly out and drinks his Guinness, the Irishman
picks out the fly and starts waving it up and down above the glass shouting 'spit it out ye bastard, spit it out!'
always forget james joyce was irish. can't imagine him or stephen daedalus dancing to this or having much fun at all to be honest
Que tout ceux qui sont là grâce à la série izombie se déclinent, cette chanson prend aux tripes avouez ;)
Ouah un français je pensais pas en voir là et encore moins grâce à izombie mdr
Hehe ouais elle est pas très regardée en france apparemment
"Timothy rising from the bed" biggest plot twist in anime
Happy St. Paddy's Day 2020, all you fine lads and lasses! ☘️☘️☘️
This seriously should have a lot of views
id love to learn the ways of these fantastic people
best variant of this song ever
Weirdly enough this was on Izombie
this is the best rendition.
This is why i love being irish
best version
Its 3am and this was in my recommended
James Joyce brought me here.
I love this song :D
great song
I loved it when this song was on that M y Little Pony episode.
Irish, the only people who would beat the shit out of you at 9 o'clock and buy you a beer at 9:30
People have bate buckets of stuff out of me but never yet was I bought a drink afterwards
Pull out the Tullemore dew!
I love this song I guess because I’m Irish I’m only 9 though
And the all gained in with the shoutmost shoviality.
Sublime!
Why are there so many in my recommendations 😭 I listened to one
Me: Oh good, it has lyrics so I'll finally know what they're saying.
The lyrics: also have a thick accent
I might well move to Ireland.
Masterpiece
@Puck Connoly I've watched every MLP episode. What episode was this song on?
Although Twi getting drunk is a rather amusing idea.
FUN!!!
finnegans wake is finna woke
Thank you iZombie!
TheBex10169 you are the best!!! is it 10169 inches or centimetres?????
@@holyboystar inches mdear
1.5x speed try and keep up.
Can't even keep up at normal speed :-3
My country men