Lannigan's Ball

LANNIGAN'S BALL
tabbed by Douglas Thompson (bananaco9@gmail.com)

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E G A Bb A G [x3]  B
I'm goin' to spin y'all a rhyme about a Jeremy Lannigan 
Get a boom boom crack until he didn't have 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 his friends and relations 
Who did not dis him when he came to the wall. 
And if you'll listen I'll make your eyes glisten 
Of the rows and the runctions of Lannigan's Ball.

E G A Bb A G [x3]  B
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
Stepped out and I stepped in again
Stepped out and I stepped in again
Stepped out and I stepped in again
Learning to dance for Mr. Lannigan's Ball

E G A Bb A G [x3]  B
Myself 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
Potatoes and cakes; bacon and teal 
There were Nolaus, Dolans, O'Gradys 
Courting the girlies and dancing away
And they were doing all kinds of fucked up waltzes
All around the room in a whirligig 
Until Julia and I soon banished that nonsense (bullshit) 
And tipped them the twist of a real irish jig

That girl, she got mad
We danced til you'd think the ceiling would fall. 
For I spent three weeks at Brook's Academy 
Learning to dance for Mr. Lannigan's Ball.   

E G A Bb A G [x3]  B
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
Stepped out and I stepped in again
Stepped out and I stepped in again
Stepped out and I stepped in again

E G A Bb A G [x3]  B
Boys were all merry and the girls were hearty
Dancing together in couples and groups 
Until an accident happened, young Terrance McCarthy 
Put his right leg through Miss Finnerty's hoops 
Creature fainted and cried 'Mellia Murther' 
Called for her brothers and gathered them all 
Carmody swore that he'd go no further 
Til 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
Had a small drop too much I suppose
Her sweatshirt, 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 at Lannigan's Ball

E G A Bb A G [x3]  B
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
Stepped out and I stepped in again
Stepped out and I stepped in again
Stepped out and I stepped in again

E  [sustained throughout]
Boys!  There was a runctions
Myself took a lick from big Phelim Mchugh  
But I soon replied to that fine introduction 
And kicked the motherfucker a hullabaloo  
Casey the Piper he nearly got strangled 
They squeezed up his pipes, bellows, chanters and all
The girlies in their ribbons, they all got entangled 
And that put an end to Mr. Lannigan's Ball

E G A Bb A G [x3]  B
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
Stepped out and I stepped in again
Stepped out and I stepped in again
Stepped out and I stepped in again
Learning to dance