In the [d] town of Athol one Jeremy Lanigan
[C] Battered away ’til he hadn’t a pound.
His [d] father died and made him a man again
[d] Left him a [E7] farm and ten [A7] acres of [d] ground.
Myself to be sure got free invitation,
For all the boys and girls I might ask,
And without being asked both friends and relations
Were dancing like bees around the sweet cask.

There were lashings of punch and wine for the ladies,
Potatoes and cakes; bacon and tea,
Nolans and Dolans and all the O’Gradys
Were courting the girls and dancing away.
Songs went ’round as plenty as water,
“The harp that once sounded in Tara’s old hall,”
“Sweet Nelly Gray” and “The Rat Catcher’s Daughter,”
Singing together at Lanigan’s Ball.

They were doing all kinds of nonsensical polkas
All ’round the room in a whirligig.
Julia and I, soon banished their nonsense
And tipped them the twist of a reel and a jig.
How the girls they all got mad at me
For they thought the ceiling would fall.
I spent six months at Brooks’ Academy
Learning to dance for Lanigan’s Ball.

[d] Six long months I [C] spent up in Dublin,
[d] Six long months doing [C] nothing at all,
[d] Six long months I [C] spent up in Dublin,
[d] Learning to [E7] dance for [A7] Lanigan’s [d] Ball.
She stepped out, I stepped in again,
I stepped out, she stepped in again,
She stepped out, I stepped in again,
Learning to dance for Lanigan’s Ball.

The boys were merry, the girls all hearty
Dancing around in couples and groups,
An accident happened, young Terrance McCarthy
He put his foot through miss Finnerty’s hoops.
The craythur she fainted, and roared, “Bloody Murder,”
Sent for her brothers and gathered them all.
Carmody swore he’d go no further
‘Til he had revenge at Lanigan’s Ball.

In the midst of the row miss Kerrigan fainted,
Her cheeks at the time as red as a rose.
Some of the lads declared she was painted,
She took a small drop too much, I suppose.
Her sweetheart, Ned Morgan, so powerful and able,
When he saw his sweet colleen stretched out by the wall,
Tore the left leg from under the table
And smashed all the Chaneys at Lanigan’s Ball.

Boys, oh boys, ’twas then there were runctions.
I got a kick from big Phelim McHugh.
I soon replied to his introduction
And kicked up a terrible hullabaloo.
Casey, the piper, was near being strangled.
Squeezed up his pipes, chanters and all.
The girls and boys they got all entangled
And that put an end to Lanigan’s Ball.

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Dies ist die Version von “Lanigan’s Ball”, wie ich sie bei den Brobdingnagian Bards (die ich leider nicht bei YouTube finden konnte…) herauszuhören vermeinte. Wie üblich, wenn etwas von den Akkorden falsch sein sollte, melden :)

Auch, wenn jemand die Chords für z.B. die Fiddler’s Green Version oder eine andere hat, einfach, bitte in die Kommentare posten oder sonstwie zukommen lassen, danke.