Finnegan’s Wake is a song from the mid-late 19th Century. The song details that a man, by name Tim Finnegan, falls off of a ladder and breaking his skull, where he is presumed to be dead.

" Finnegan's Wake " (Roud 1009) is an Irish-American comic folk ballad, first published in New York in 1864. [1][2][3] Various 19th-century variety theatre performers, including Dan Bryant of Bryant's …

Finnegan's Wake from The Irish Rovers Silver Anniversary. Featuring our Father, "Wee Bob" Millar. From "Hardstuff" album, on Spotify: https://open.spotify.co...

His friends assembled at the wake and Mrs. Finegan call for lunch (LUNCH!) first they brought out tay and cakes and pipes and tobacco and whiskey punch (PUNCH!) then Biddy O'Brien began to cry …

Dedicated, no doubt, to the Irishman's love of funerals and whiskey, Finnegans Wake supplied the theme for James Joyce's famous novel of the same name. I also released a parody called …

The lyrics humorously tell the story of Tim Finnegan, a hod-carrier who falls from a ladder, seemingly dies, and is laid out for his wake, and the fun begins!

The song tells of a man who dies because of an alcohol-induced accident. At his funeral, whiskey is spilled that brings him back to life, completing the whiskey-soaked cycle.

The lyrics to Finnegan’s Wake are brilliant in the way they convey so much so quickly. There’s a very strong story of death and resurrection, lots of humour and zest for life, fun and fighting, and then an …

One mornin' Tim was feelin' full His head was heavy which made him shake; He fell from the ladder and broke his skull And they carried him home his corpse to wake.

Arising in the 1850s from Irish music hall roots, The Ballad of Finnegan’s Wake (or just Finnegan’s Wake) is a song about an Irish mason named Tim Finnegan and his death and...