Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin Street
提姆‧芬尼根住在沃金街
A gentle Irishman, mighty odd
一個溫柔的愛爾蘭人，非常古怪
He'd a beautiful brogue so rich and sweet
他擁有一口漂亮的愛爾蘭腔調，厚重而甜美
And to rise in the world
而為了在世界上「崛起」，
he carried a hod
他隨身帶著一頂帽子
You see he'd a sort of the tipp' lin' way
你看，他有點顛顛倒倒的
With the love of the liquor, poor Tim was born
可憐的蒂姆打出娘胎就嗜酒如命
And to help him on with his work each day
且有益於讓他每天上工勞動
He'd a drop of the craythur every morning
他每天早上都會喝一滴克雷瑟酒
Whack fol the dah,
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now, dance to your partner
現在，跟你的舞伴一起跳舞吧
Welt the floor your trotters shake
你的豬蹄貼上地板搖晃
Wasn't it the truth I tell you
我告訴你的不是實話嗎？
Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake
芬尼根守靈活動充滿樂趣
One morning Tim was rather full
有一天早上蒂姆吃得很飽
His head felt heavy, which made him shake
他的頭感覺很沉重，讓他不禁顫抖起來
He fell from the ladder and he broke his skull
他從梯子上摔下來，摔斷了頭骨
And they carried him home his corpse to wake
而他們把他的屍體抬回家以便守靈
They rolled him up in a nice clean sheet
他們把他包在一張乾淨的床單裡
And laid him out upon the bed
並且把他放在床上
With a gallon of whiskey at his feet
在他腳邊有一加侖威士忌
And a barrel of porter at his head
在他頭上還有一桶黑啤酒
His friends assembled at the wake
他的朋友們聚集在守靈場
And Mrs. Finnegan called for lunch
芬尼根夫人叫大家集合用午餐
First they brought in tay and cake
首先他們拿出茶和蛋糕
Then pipes, tobacco and whiskey punch
再來推出煙斗、香菸和威士忌潘趣酒
Biddy O'Brien began to cry
畢迪·奧布萊恩開始哭泣
"Such a nice clean corpse did you ever see?
「你看過這麼乾淨的屍體嗎？
Tim Mavourneen why did you die?"
蒂姆·馬弗尼你怎麼會死？」
"Arrah hold your gob" said Paddy McGee
帕迪·麥吉說：「啊，管好你那張爛嘴吧！」
Then Maggie O'Connor took up the job
然後瑪吉·奧康納就多管閒事
"O Biddy, " says she "you're wrong I'm sure"
「噢，畢迪，」她說，「我確信你錯了！」
Biddy gave her a belt in the gob
畢迪朝她嘴裏狂塞一條腰帶
And left her sprawling on the floor
而後讓她趴倒在地板上
Then the war did soon engage
然後戰爭很快就爆發了
It was woman to woman and man to man
這是女人對女人，男人對男人（的大混戰）
十八般武藝奇門盾甲火力全開
Shillelagh law was all the rage
And a row and a ruction soon began
接下來一場鬥嘴和暴動立刻上演
Then Mickey Maloney raised his head
然後米基·馬洛尼猛一抬頭
When a bucket of whiskey flew at him
當一桶威士忌飛向他時
It missed and falling on the bed
它沒命中目標卻倒在床上
The liquor scattered over Tim
酒打翻了全灑在蒂姆身上
Tim revives, see how he rises
提姆死而復生了，看看他如何「崛起」
Timothy rising from the bed
蒂莫西從床上起身
Said "Whirl your whiskey around like blazes
說道：「像扔火烥一樣地旋轉你的威士忌酒瓶？
Thundering Jesus, do you think I'm dead?"
霹靂耶穌啊，你們都當我死了嗎？」
