Irish Music Lannigans Ball Lyrics

In the town of Athy, one Jeremy Lannigan
battered away til he hadn't a pound,
and his father died-and it made him a man again-
daddy left a farm and ten acres of ground.
He had a party for friends and relations
who did not dis' him when come to the wall.
And if you'll but listen,
I'll make your eyes glisten,
of the rows and the runctions of Lannigan's Ball.

six long months i spen in Dublin
six long months doing nothing at all
six long months i spent in Dublin
learning to dance for Lannigan's Ball

Myelf to be sure got a free invitation
for all the nice girlies and boys i might ask
and in a minute both a friend and relation
were dancing as merry as bees round a cask.
There were lashings of punch and wine for the ladies,
potatos and cakes; bacon and teal.
There were Nolaus, Dolans, O'Gradys courting the girlies and dancing away.
They were doing all kinds of polkas,
all around the room in a whirligig
until Julia and I soon banished that nonsense
and tipped them the twist of a real irish jig-

That girl, she got mad at me,
danced til youd think the ceiling would fall,
for i spent three weeks at Brooks Academy learning to dance for Mr Lannigan's Ball.
Boys were all merry and the girls they were hearty
dancing together in couples and groups until an accident happened,
young Terrance McCarthy put his right leg through Miss Finnerty's hoops.
The creature fainted and cried.
Mellia Murther called for for her brothers and gathered them all.
Carmody swore that he'd go no further until he had satisfaction at Lannigan's Ball.
In the midst of the room Miss Kerrigan fainted,
her cheeks at the same time as red as a rose.
Some of the boys decreed that she was painted.
Her sweetheart, Ned Morgan so powerful and able,
when he saw his fair Colleen stretched by the wall,
tore the left leg from under the table and smashed all the dishes and Lannigan's Ball.

Boys oh boys, there was a runctions.
Myself took a lick from Big Phelim McHugh,
but i soon replied to that fine introduction
and kicked him a terrible hullabaloo.
Casey the Piper he nearly got strangled,
they squeezed up his pipes, bellows, chanters and all.
The girlies their ribbons, they got all entangled
and that put an end to Mr Lannigan's Ball.