Lanigan's Ball

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In the town of Athy one Jeremy Lannigan's

Battered away till he hadn't a pound

His father he died and made him a man again

Left him a man again left him a farm and ten acres of ground

He gave a grand ball to his friends and relations

Who hadn't forgot him when he went to the wall

If you only listen listen I'll make your eyes glisten

At the row and runction's at Lanigan's ball

(Chorus each time)

Six long months I spent in Dublin

Six long months doing nothing at all

Six long months I spent i Dublin

Learning to dance for Lanigan's Ball

I stepped out and I stepped in again

I stepped out and I stepped in

I stepped out and I stepped in again

Learning to dance for Lanigan's Ball

Myself to be sure got free invitations

For all the nice girls and boys I might ask

In less than a minute both friends and relations

Were dancing as merry as bees round a cask

There was lashing of punch and wines for the ladies

Potatoes and cakes there was bacon and tea

There were the Nolan's Dolan's O'Grady's

Courting the girls and dancing away

The girls were all merry the boys all hearty

Dancing away in couples and groups

Till an accident happened young Terrance McCarthy

Put his right foot through Miss Finerty's hoops

The creature she fainted and cried meelia murther

Called for her brother and gathered them all

Carmody swore that he'd go no futher

Till he had satisfaction at Lanigan's Ball

Boys o boys then there was runctions

Myself got a kick from Phelim McHugh

But soon I replied to his kind introduction

And kicked up a terrible hullabaloo

Old Casey the pipe was near being strangled

They squeezed up his pipes belows chanters and all

The girls in their ribbons they all got entangled

And that put an end to Lanigan's Ball