Finnegans Wake chords by The Wolfe Tones

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: C majorC

Difficulty: Novice

Verse:
  C majorC         A minorAm        FF        G+G
Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin Street, a gentle Irishman mighty odd
  C majorC        A minorAm           FF          G+G     C majorC
He had a brogue so rich and sweet, an' to rise in the world he carried a hod
    C majorC          A minorAm          C majorC         A minorAm
An' you see he'd a sort of a tippelen way with the love of the liquor Tim was born
  C majorC         A minorAm          FF          G+G   C majorC
An' to help him on his way each day, he'd a drop of the craythur every morn

Chorus:
C majorC           A minorAm          FF          G+G
Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner around the flure yer trotters shake
C majorC       A minorAm        FF       G+G     C majorC
Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake

Verse:
  C majorC        A minorAm         FF           G+G
One morning Tim felt rather full, his a-head felt heavy and it made him shake
    C majorC              A minorAm            FF          G+G     C majorC
Well he fell from the ladder and he broke his skull, an' they carried him home his corpse to wake
   C majorC         A minorAm           C majorC       A minorAm
They rolled him up in a nice clean sheet, they laid him out upon the bed
    C majorC        A minorAm        FF         G+G   C majorC
With a bottle of porter at his feet and a bottle of whiskey at his head

Chorus:
C majorC           A minorAm          FF          G+G
Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner around the flure yer trotters shake
C majorC       A minorAm        FF       G+G     C majorC
Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake

Verse:
  C majorC         A minorAm        FF      G+G
His friends assembled at the wake, an' Mrs Finnegan called for lunch (c'mon Brady bring in the tay)
   C majorC           A minorAm           FF         G+G    C majorC
Well first they brought in tea and cakes, then the pipes, tobacco and whiskey punch
     C majorC        A minorAm         C majorC             A minorAm
Then the widow Maloney began to cry, "Such a nice clean corpse, did you ever see,
  C majorC       A minorAm             FF           G+G   C majorC
ara Tim avourneen, why did you die?\