[ti:At Finnigan's Ball (2005 Digital Remaster)]
[ar:Ruby Murray]
[al:It's The Irish In Me]
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[00:00.00]At Finnegan's Ball - Ruby Murray
[00:11.86]Michael Finnigan held a ball
[00:14.30]Down in Ballymahon in the old town hall
[00:16.66]We drove in cabs to the festive scene
[00:19.23]I hired a couple but I ran between
[00:21.73]Oh what a gathering we had there
[00:24.11]Oh what a gathering I declare
[00:26.70]Patsy Sullivan he looked a wreck
[00:29.05]For he had a gathering upon his neck
[00:31.98]Finnigan's Ball What a night of jollity
[00:34.20]Finnigan's Ball dancing all around
[00:36.62]We were strict tea totelers one an all
[00:39.14]Till the cork came out at Finnigan's Ball
[00:44.34]Old Mrs Mullin's three score and ten
[00:46.82]Hadn't had a kiss since the Lord knows when
[00:49.36]She bought a mask and went to the dance
[00:51.62]To cover up her face it was her only chance
[00:54.33]Sat out a dance with Mike Muldoon
[00:56.80]Out upon the stairs she began to spoon
[00:59.20]He spotted her face when he gave her a kiss
[01:01.73]And said heaven help a sailor on a night like this
[01:04.43]Finnigan's Ball there was Michael Cassidy
[01:07.28]Finnigan's Ball playing in the band
[01:09.09]But he was so thin and lean and small
[01:11.60]That he fell through his trumpet at Finnigan's Ball
[01:17.12]We had supper with lots to eat
[01:19.51]Say we had the finest whisky neat
[01:22.03]There was trouble in store oh dear
[01:24.42]Barney Flynn drank Finnigan's beer
[01:27.11]Mrs Bull had some appetite
[01:29.47]She ate twenty seven buns that night
[01:32.06]The buns are fine says Mrs Bull
[01:34.59]But I couldn't eat another
[01:35.89]For my program's full
[01:37.16]Finnigan's Ball little Mrs Rafferty
[01:39.64]Finnigan's Ball promised me a dance
[01:41.94]But she slipped on the stairs and had a fall
[01:44.44]And she broke her promise at Finnegan's Ball