FREUT EUCH AUF LANIGAN´s BALL
© 2005 NARISH

“Lanigan´s Ball” ist ein populäres irisches Trinklied.
“Freut Euch des Lebens” von Johann Martin Usteri (1763-1827)

In the town of - Athy one Jeremy Lanigan
battered away till he hadn’t a shilling
His father died and made him a man again
Left him a farm and ten acres of ground.

He gave a grand party to friends and relations,
Who did not forget him when come to the wall.
If you but listen, I’ll make your eyes glisten
at the rows and the ructions of Lanigan’s Ball.

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 Lanigan’s ball

He stepped out – I stepped in again
I stepped out – he stepped in again
She stepped out – I stepped in a again
Learning to dance for Lanigan’s ball!

Myself to be sure got invitations
for all the  girls and boys I might ask
Having been asked both friends and relations
Were dancing as merry as bees round a cask

There was lashings of drinks and wine for the ladies
Potatoes and cakes, there was bacon and tea,
Nolans, Dolans and all the O’Grady’s
Courting the girls and dancing away

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Opener- & Portrait Fotos: Brigitte Gradwohl