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Lanigan's Ball

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Fiddler's Green - Lanigan's Ball lyrics with translation (on click)

Lanigan's Ball - Fiddler's Green

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In the town of Athy one Jeremy Lanigan

Battered away till he hadn´t a pound

And his father he died and made him a man again,

Left him a farm and ten acres of ground

He gave a grand party to friends and relations

Who did not forget him when come to the wall

If you´d only listen, I´ll make your eyes glisten

At the rows and ructions of Lanigan´s ball

Myself to be sure to 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

Lashing of punch and wine for the ladies

Potatoes, cakes, there was bacon and tea

There were the Nolans, Dolans, O´Grady´s

Courting the girls and dancing away

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 Lanigan´s ball

They were doing all kinds of nonsensical polkas

Round the room in a whirly gig

But Julia and I soon banished their nonsense

And tipped them a twist of a real Irish jig

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