A Correction Re: [Sca-cooks] 'shillelagh law'

[rbbtslyr]

You all realize that the "Wiskey being splashed all over, Tim" and Timmothy
rising from the dead" is a pun

Whiskey is a corruption of the Gaelic for "Water of Life" I have always
thought that was a great "inside" joke in the song!

Kirk

Meddle not in the Affairs of Dragons, for thou art Crunchy and Taste Good
with Catsup or BBQ Sauce

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Huette von Ahrens" <ahrenshav at yahoo.com>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: A Correction Re: [Sca-cooks] 'shillelagh law'


>
>
> --- "Laura C. Minnick" <lcm at jeffnet.org> wrote:
>
> > At 11:41 AM 6/5/2005, you wrote:
> > >I wrote:
> > >
> > > > The Clany Brothers and Tommy M in the song "Finnigan's Wake"?  I
think the
> > > > line is "...and shillelagh law was all the rage"
> > > >
> > >I've thought again and I think it was The Irish Rovers in the song "The
> > >Orange and the Green".
> >
> > Same song, I'm sure. Fight breaks out at the wake, if I remember
aright...
> >
> > 'Lainie
>
> Actually, 'Lainie, it isn't the same song.  But you were right about the
phrase being in the song,
> "Finnigan's Wake".  Although that should be "The Clancy Brothers", not
Clany.
>
> Huette
>
> FINNEGAN'S WAKE
> Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin Street
> A gentle Irishman, mighty odd
> He'd a beautiful brogue so rich and sweet
> And to rise in the world he carried a hod
> 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
> He'd a drop of the craythur every morn
>
> Chorus:
> Whack fol the da, now, dance to your partner
> Welt the floor your trotters shake
> Wasn't it the truth I tell you
> Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake
>
> One mornin' Tim was rather full
> His head felt heavy, which made him shake
> He fell from the ladder and he broke his skull
> And they carried him home his corpse to wake
> They rolled him up in a nice clean sheet
> And laid him out upon the bed
> With a gallon of whiskey at his feet
> And a barrel of porter at his head
>
> His friends assembled at the wake
> And Mrs. Finnegan called for lunch
> First they brought in tay 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?"
> "Arrah hold your gob" said Paddy McGee
>
> Then Maggie O'Connor took up the job
> "O Biddy," says she "you're wrong I'm sure"
> Biddy gave her a belt in the gob
> And left her sprawling on the floor
> Then the war did soon engage
> It was woman to woman and man to man
> Shillelagh law was all the rage
> And a row and a ruction soon began
>
> Then Mickey Maloney raised his head
> When a bucket of whiskey flew at him
> It missed and falling on the bed
> The liquor scattered over Tim
> Tim revives, see how he rises
> Timothy rising from the bed
> Said "Whirl your whiskey around like blazes
> Thundering Jesus, do you think I'm dead?"
>
>
>
> Remember that while money talks, chocolate sings.
>
>
>
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