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Have any of you ever attempted to read Finnegan's Wake?

I've gotta say"No!" But the Dropkick Murphys cover "Finnegan's Wake" on 1998's 'Do Or Die'.

"Finnegan's Wake" by Dropkick Murphys

Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin' Street, A gentle Irishman - mighty odd -
He'd a beautiful brogue so rich and sweet, to rise in the world he carried a hod,
You see he'd a sort of a tripplin' way; with love for a liquor poor Tim was born.
To help him along with his work every day, he'd a drop of the craythur every morn'.

One morning Tim was rather full, his head felt heavy, which made him shake,
Fell from the ladder and broke his skull, so they carried him home, his corpse to wake
Rolled him up in a nice clean sheet, and laid him out upon the bed.
A bottle of whiskey at his feet, and a gallon of porter at his head.

And whack fol-de-dah now dance to your partner, whirl the floor, your trotters shake Wasn't it the truth I told ye? Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake.

His friends assembled at his wake, and Missus Finnegan called for lunch
First they brought in tay and cake, then pipes, tobacco and whiskey punch
Biddy O'Brien began to cry, "Such a nice clean corpse did you e'er did see,
Tim, mavourneen, why did you die?", "Will ye hold your gob?" said Paddy McGee.

And whack fol-de-dah now dance to your partner, whirl the floor, your trotters shake Wasn't it the truth I told ye? Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake.

Then Peggy O'Connor took up the job "Biddy" she says, "Ye're wrong I'm sure,"
Biddy then gave her a belt on the gob and left her sprawling on the floor,
There the war did soon engage, woman to woman and man to man
Shillelagh law was all the rage, an' a row and a ruction soon began

Mickey Maloney raised his head when a bottle of whiskey flew at him,
it missed him, falling on the bed, the liquor scattered all over Tim,
Tim revives! See how he rises! Timothy rising from the bed!
"Whirl your whisky around like blazes, Thanum an Dhul...do ye think I'm dead?"

And whack fol-de-dah now dance to your Partner, whirl the floor, your trotters shake Wasn't it the truth I told ye? Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake.

Just OK. I'v now started this thread on another forum.

Koalas and Kangaroos are about all I can think of for 'K' most of the time. It is definitely one of the Top 5 hardest letters to think of something for.

Looks like I've got a result, five pages already. But they started going backwards through the alphabet after getting to Z the second time.

Maybe it's time to start a new topic...

No. wait, what was the topic?

Oops! I don't think we had a topic..

Perhaps we should consider raiding a bank.

Quite a dumb thing to do... What you really want to do is raid a bank's computer,
that's where all the money is these days.

Reality is that money is imaginary and only truly exists in a virtual environment.

Stick to the facts! Money is not imaginary!

True, how else do you explain all these evil corporations?

Utterly stupid, isn't it!

Very stupid. And so the keys of our lives are handed over to:

EVIL CONSERVATIVE INDUSTRIES!

We'll see about that...