{"id":1691,"date":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/lanigans-ball"},"modified":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","slug":"lanigans-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/lanigans-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"LANIGAN’S BALL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish traditional song lyrics \u2014 collected by Beer Belly Band.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the town of Athy one Jeremy Lanigan
\nBattered away ’til he hadn’t a pound
\nHis father he died and made him a man again
\nLeft him a farm and ten acres of ground
\nHe gave a grand party to friends and relations
\nWho didn’t forget him when it comes to the will
\nAnd if you’ll but listen I’ll make your eyes glisten
\nOf the rows and the ructions of Lanigan’s Ball<\/p>\n

Chorus:
\nSix long months I spent in Dublin
\nsix long months doing nothing at all
\nSix long months I spent in Dublin
\nlearning to dance for Lanigan’s Ball<\/p>\n

Myself to be sure got free invitation
\nFor all the nice girls and boys I might ask
\nAnd just in a minute both friends and relations
\nWere dancing ’round merry as bees ’round a cask
\nJudy O’Daly, that nice little milliner
\nShe tipped me a wink for to give her a call
\nAnd I soon arrived with Peggy McGilligan
\nJust in time for Lanigan’s Ball<\/p>\n

Chorus<\/p>\n

There were lashings of punch and wine for the ladies
\nPotatoes and cakes; there was bacon and tea
\nThere were the Nolans, Dolans, O’Gradys
\nCourting the girls and dancing away
\nSongs they went ’round as plenty as water
\n“The harp that once sounded in Tara’s old hall,”
\n“Sweet Nelly Gray” and “The Rat Catcher’s Daughter,”
\nAll singing together at Lanigan’s Ball<\/p>\n

Chorus<\/p>\n

They were doing all kinds of nonsensical polkas
\nAll ’round the room in a whirligig
\nJulia and I, we banished their nonsense
\nAnd tipped them the twist of a reel and a jig
\n‘Och mavrone, how the girls got all mad at me
\nDanced ’til you’d think the ceiling would fall
\nFor I spent three weeks at Brooks’ Academy
\nLearning new steps for Lanigan’s Ball<\/p>\n

She stepped out and I stepped in again
\nI stepped out and she stepped in again
\nShe stepped out and I stepped in again
\nLearning new steps for Lanigan’s Ball<\/p>\n

Boys were all merry and the girls they were hearty
\nAnd danced all around in couples and groups
\n‘Til an accident happened, young Terrance McCarthy
\nPut his right leg through miss Finnerty’s hoops
\nPoor creature fainted and cried, “Meelia murther”
\nCalled for her brothers and gathered them all
\nCarmody swore that he’d go no further
\n‘Til he had satisfaction at Lanigan’s Ball<\/p>\n

In the midst of the row miss Kerrigan fainted
\nHer cheeks at the same time as red as a rose
\nSome of the lads declared she was painted
\nShe took a small drop too much, I suppose
\nHer sweetheart, Ned Morgan, so powerful and able
\nWhen he saw his fair colleen stretched out by the wall
\nTore the left leg from under the table
\nAnd smashed all the Chaneys at Lanigan’s Ball<\/p>\n

Boys, oh boys, ’twas then there were runctions
\nMyself got a lick from big Phelim McHugh
\nI soon replied to his introduction
\nAnd kicked up a terrible hullabaloo
\nOld Casey, the piper, was near being strangled
\nThey squeezed up his pipes, bellows, chanters and all
\nThe girls, in their ribbons, they got all entangled
\nAnd that put an end to Lanigan’s Ball<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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