Finnegan's Wake
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title:
Finnegan's Wake
text:
"Finnegan's Wake" is an Irish-American comic folk ballad, first published in New York in 1864. Various 19th-century variety theatre performers, including Dan Bryant of Bryant's Minstrels, claimed authorship but a definitive account of the song's origin has not been established. An earlier popular song, John Brougham's "A Fine Ould Irish Gintleman," also included a verse in which an apparently dead alcoholic was revived by the power of whiskey. In more recent times, "Finnegan's Wake" was a staple
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Irish-American comic ballad
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnegan%27s_Wake
date created:
2002-09-14T16:15:13Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T19:12:29Z
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