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Lyrics for Lanigans Ball by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Lanigans Ball | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 160 | | | | Lyrics: | Lanigan's Ball
In the town of Athy one Jeremy Lanigan
Battered away 'til he hadn't a
pound.
His father died and made him a man again
Left him a farm and ten acres of
ground.
He gave a grand party for friends and relations
Who didn't forget him when come to
the wall,
And if you'll but listen I'll make your eyes glisten
Of the rows and the
ructions of Lanigan's Ball.
Myself to be sure got free invitation,
For all the nice
girls and boys I might ask,
And just in a minute both friends and relations
Were dancing
'round merry as bees 'round a cask.
Judy O'Daly, that nice little milliner,
She tipped me
a wink for to give her a call,
And I soon arrived with Peggy McGilligan
Just in time for
Lanigan's Ball.
There were lashings of punch and wine for the ladies,
Potatoes and cakes;
there was bacon and tea,
There were the Nolans, Dolans, O'Gradys
Courting the girls and
dancing away.
Songs they went 'round as plenty as water,
"The harp that once sounded in
Tara's old hall,"
"Sweet Nelly Gray" and "The Rat Catcher's Daughter,"
All singing
together at Lanigan's Ball.
They were doing all kinds of nonsensical polkas
All
'round the room in a whirligig.
Julia and I, we banished their nonsense
And tipped them
the twist of a reel and a jig.
&'Och mavrone, how the girls got all mad at me
Danced 'til
you'd think the ceiling would fall.
For I spent three weeks at Brooks' Academy
Learning
new steps for Lanigan's Ball.
Three long weeks I spent up in Dublin,
Three long
weeks to learn nothing at all,
Three long weeks I spent up in Dublin,
Learning new steps
for Lanigan's Ball.
She stepped out and I stepped in again,
I stepped out and she stepped
in again,
She stepped out and I stepped in again,
Learning new steps for Lanigan's
Ball.
Boys were all merry and the girls they were hearty
And danced all around in
couples and groups,
'Til an accident happened, young Terrance McCarthy
Put his right leg
through miss Finnerty's hoops.
Poor creature fainted and cried, ''Meelia murther,''
Called
for her brothers and gathered them all.
Carmody swore that he'd go no further
'Til he had
satisfaction at Lanigan's Ball.
In the midst of the row miss Kerrigan fainted,
Her
cheeks at the same time as red as a rose.
Some of the lads declared she was painted,
She
took a small drop too much, I suppose.
Her sweetheart, Ned Morgan, so powerful and
able,
When he saw his fair colleen stretched out by the wall,
Tore the left leg from under
the table
And smashed all the Chaneys at Lanigan's Ball.
Boys, oh boys, 'twas then
there were runctions.
Myself got a lick from big Phelim McHugh.
I soon replied to his
introduction
And kicked up a terrible hullabaloo.
Old Casey, the piper, was near being
strangled.
They squeezed up his pipes, bellows, chanters and all.
The girls, in their
ribbons, they got all entangled
And that put an end to Lanigan's Ball.
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