Lannigan's Ball

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In the town of Athy one Jeremy Lannigan
Battered away till he hadn't a pound
Then his father died and he made him a man again
Left him a farm and ten acres of ground

He gave a grand party to friends and relations
Who would not forget him when come to the will
If you'll only listen, I'll make your eyes glisten
At the rows and ructions of Lannigan's ball

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 Lannigan's ball

And I stepped out - and I stepped in again
I stepped out - and I stepped in again
I stepped out - and then I stepped in again
Learning to dance for Lannigan's ball

Myself to be sure got free invitations
To all the young colleens and boys I might ask
In less than a moment both friends and relations
Were dancing as merry as bees round a cask

There was lashings of punch, there was 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

Doing all sorts of nonsensical polkas
Around the room in a whirly gig
But Julia and I soon banished their nonsense
We tipped them a twist of a real Irish jig

Oh how the girl she got mad at me
Danced til you'd think the ceiling would fall
For I spent six months in Brooks Academy
Learning to dance for Lannigan's ball

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 Lannigan's ball

And I stepped out - and I stepped in again
I stepped out - and I stepped in again
I stepped out - and then I stepped in again
Learning to dance for Lannigan's ball

The boys were merry, the girls all hearty
Dancing away in couples and groups
Till an accident happened, young Terence McCarthy
He put his left leg through Miss Finnerty's hoops

The creature she fainted she cried Meelia Murther
she called for her brothers and gathered them all
Carmody swore that he'd go no further,
Till he had satisfaction at Lannigan's ball

In the midst of the row Miss Kerrigan fainted
her cheeks, the same time, were as red as a rose
some of the boys decreed 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 dishes at Lannigan's ball!

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 Lannigan's ball

And I stepped out - and I stepped in again
I stepped out - and I stepped in again
I stepped out - and then I stepped in again
Learning to dance for Lannigan's ball

Boys, oh boys, 'tis there was ructions
Myself took a leg from young Phelim McHugh
And I soon replied to his kind introduction
And kicked him a terrible hullabaloo

Casey the piper he got nearly strangled
They squeezed up his pipes, bellows, chanters and all
And the girls in their ribbons they all got entangled
And that put an end to Lannigan's ball

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