“Finnegan's Wake”

Description

Tim Finnegan, never entirely sober, falls from a ladder and cracks his head. Taken home unconscious, his wife holds a wake that soon gets out of control. Splashed with whiskey, Tim awakens and resents being thought dead

Notes

Broadside LOCSinging sb40523b: H. De Marsan dating per _Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song_ by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site. - BS

Same tune

• The French Musician (per broadside LOCSinging sb40523b)

Cross references

• cf. "The Irish Wake" [Laws Q18]
• cf. "The Bullockies' Ball" (theme)
• cf. "Doherty's Wake" (subject)

Broadsides

• Bodleian, Firth b.25(254), "Finnigan's Wake," W.S. Fortey (London), 1858-1885; also Harding B 11(3620), Harding B 11(3619), Firth c.26(209), Harding B 11(1207), "Finnigan's Wake"
• LOCSinging, sb40523b, "Tim Finigan's wake," H. De Marsan (New York), 1859-1860

Recordings

• The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, "Finnigan's Wake" (on IRClancyMakem01)
• Warde Ford, "Finnegan's Wake" [incomplete] (AFS 4212 A3, 1939; in AMMEM/Cowell)
• Jack Swain, "Finnigan's Wake I" (on NFMLeach)
• John Terrell, "Tim Finnegan's Wake" (Berliner 1869, 1898)

References

1. Laws Q17, "Tim Finnegan's Wake" [Laws Q17]
2. Eddy 146, "Tim Finnegan's Wake" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
3. Gardner/Chickering 169, "Finnigan's Wake" (1 text)
4. Creighton-NovaScotia 86, "Tim Finnigan's Wake" (1 text, 1 tune)
5. O'Conor, p. 136, "Tim Finigan's Wake" (1 text)
6. OLochlainn 91, "Finnegan's Wake" (1 text, 1 tune)
7. Hodgart, p. 219, "Finnegan's Wake" (1 text)
8. Gilbert, p. 120, "Finnegan's Wake" (1 partial text)
9. Silber-FSWB, p. 232, "Finnegan's Wake" (1 text)
10. DT 528, FINNWAKE*
11. ADDITIONAL: Frank Harte _Songs of Dublin_, second edition, Ossian, 1993, pp. 28-29, "Finnegan's Wake" (1 text, 1 tune)
12. Roud #1009
13. BI, LQ17