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| Lanigan's Ball |
| In the town of Athy one Jeremy
Lanigan Battered away till he hadn’t a pound, His father he 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 did not forget him when come to the will If you but listen, I’ll make your eyes glisten At the rows and ructions of Lanigans ball CHORUS: Six long months I spent in Dublin, Six long months doing nothing at all, Six long months I spent in Dublin, Learning to dance for Lanigans ball I stepped out, I stepped in again, I stepped out again, I stepped in again, I stepped out and I stepped in again learning to dance for Lanigans ball. Myself to be sure got free invitations For all the nice girls and boys I might ask And just in a minute both friends and relations Were dancing as merry as bees round a cask. There was lashings of punch and wine for the ladies Potatoes and cakes there was bacon and tea There were the Nolans, Dolans, O’Grady’s Courting the girls and dancing away CHORUS They were doing all kinds of nonsensical polkas All round the world in a whirligig But Julia and I soon banished their nonsense And tipped them a twist of a real Irish jig Oh how that girl she got mad at me And danced till you’d think the ceiling would fall For I spent three weeks at Brooks academy Learning to dance for Lanigans ball CHORUS The boys were all merry The girls all hearty Dancing away in couples and groups ‘Til an accident happened young Terence McCarthy He put his right leg through Miss Finerty’s hoops The creature she fainted and cried Meelia Murther Called for her brothers and gathered them all Carmody swore that he’d go no further Till he’d have satisfaction at Lanigans ball CHORUS In the midst of the row Miss Kerrigan fainted Her cheeks at the same time as red as a rose Some of the boys 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 by the wall He tore the left leg from under the table And smashed all the dishes at Lanigans Ball CHORUS Boys, oh boys t’was then there were ructions Myself got a kick from big Fhelin McHugh But soon I replied to his kind 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 all got entangled And that put an end to Lanigans Ball CHORUS Back to ROTD review Colcannon |