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96 lines
3.1 KiB
96 lines
3.1 KiB
13 years ago
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\selectlanguage{english}
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\songcolumns{2}
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\beginsong{Lanigan's Ball}[by=Traditional]
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\lilypond{lanigans_ball}
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\beginverse
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In the town of Athy one Jeremy Lanigan
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Battered away 'til he hadn't a pound.
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His father died and made him a man again
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Left him a farm and ten acres of ground.
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He gave a grand party for friends and relations
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Who didn't forget him when come to the wall,
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And if you'll but listen I'll make your eyes glisten
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Of the rows and the ructions of Lanigan's Ball.
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\endverse
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\beginverse
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Myself to be sure got free invitation,
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For all the nice girls and boys I might ask,
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And just in a minute both friends and relations
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Were dancing 'round merry as bees 'round a cask.
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Judy O'Daly, that nice little milliner,
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She tipped me a wink for to give her a call,
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And I soon arrived with Peggy McGilligan
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Just in time for Lanigan's Ball.
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\endverse
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\beginverse
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There were lashings of punch and wine for the ladies,
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Potatoes and cakes; there was bacon and tea,
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There were the Nolans, Dolans, O'Gradys
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Courting the girls and dancing away.
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Songs they went 'round as plenty as water,
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The harp that once sounded in Tara's old hall,
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Sweet Nelly Gray and The Rat Catcher's Daughter,
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All singing together at Lanigan's Ball.
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\endverse
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\beginverse
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They were doing all kinds of nonsensical polkas
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All 'round the room in a whirligig.
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Julia and I, we banished their nonsense
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And tipped them the twist of a reel and a jig.
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'Och mavrone, how the girls got all mad at me
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Danced 'til you'd think the ceiling would fall.
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For I spent three weeks at Brooks' Academy
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Learning new steps for Lanigan's Ball.
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\endverse
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\beginchorus
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Three long weeks I spent up in Dublin,
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Three long weeks to learn nothing at all,
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Three long weeks I spent up in Dublin,
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Learning new steps for Lanigan's Ball.
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She stepped out and I stepped in again,
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I stepped out and she stepped in again,
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She stepped out and I stepped in again,
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Learning new steps for Lanigan's Ball.
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\endchorus
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\beginverse
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Boys were all merry and the girls they were hearty
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And danced all around in couples and groups,
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'Til an accident happened, young Terrance McCarthy
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Put his right leg through miss Finnerty's hoops.
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Poor creature fainted and cried: Meelia murther,
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Called for her brothers and gathered them all.
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Carmody swore that he'd go no further
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'Til he had satisfaction at Lanigan's Ball.
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\endverse
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\beginverse
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In the midst of the row miss Kerrigan fainted,
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Her cheeks at the same time as red as a rose.
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Some of the lads declared she was painted,
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She took a small drop too much, I suppose.
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Her sweetheart, Ned Morgan, so powerful and able,
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When he saw his fair colleen stretched out by the wall,
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Tore the left leg from under the table
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And smashed all the Chaneys at Lanigan's Ball.
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\endverse
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\beginverse
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Boys, oh boys, 'twas then there were runctions.
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Myself got a lick from big Phelim McHugh.
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I soon replied to his introduction
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And kicked up a terrible hullabaloo.
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Old Casey, the piper, was near being strangled.
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They squeezed up his pipes, bellows, chanters and all.
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The girls, in their ribbons, they got all entangled
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And that put an end to Lanigan's Ball.
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\endverse
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\endsong
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