アイルランド民謡 FINNEGAN'S WAKE

柳瀬尚紀さんの『フィネガン辛航紀』を中古で買ったのですが、そこに「フィネガンズ・ウェイク◎讃」と題された小冊子が挟まっていました。井上ひさしさん他、複数の方々の日本語訳『フィネガンズ・ウェイク』に対する賛辞と、大澤正佳さんの「『ウェイク』序奏のための助走」と題された小文が書かれているものです。

もともと付いていたものなのか、それとも他の本に付いていたものが挟まっていたのかは不明。河出書房新社が作っているので『フィネガン辛航紀』に挟まっていても不思議ではないのですが、河出書房新社から『フィネガンズ・ウェイク』が出版されているので、そちらに挟まっていたものである可能性があります。

いずれにせよ、ラッキーです。

その小冊子に、ジョイスの『フィネガンズ・ウェイク』の表題の元となった、アイルランド民謡の FINNEGAN'S WAKE も載っていました。

Tim Finnegan lived in Walker Street

A gentle Irish man mighty odd

He'd a beautiful brogue so rich and sweet

And to rise in the world he carried a hod

Now you see he'd a sort of a tippling way

With a love of liquor

Tim was born and to help him on his way each day

He'd a drop of the creatur every morn

Chourus:

Whack for the hurrah take your partners

Round the floor ye trotters shake

Isn't the truth I told you

Lots of fun at Finnigan's wake

One morning Tim was rather full

His head felt heavy which made him shake

He fell off the ladder and broke his skull

So they carried him home a corpse to wake

They wrapped him up in a nice clean sheet

And laid him out upon the bed

With plenty of candles around his feet

And a couple of dozen around his head

Repeat Chourus: --

His friends assembled at the wake

And Missus Finnegan called for lunch

First they laid out tea and cakes

Then pipes and tobacco and whiskey punch

Then Biddy O'Brien began to cry

Such a lovely corpse did you ever see

Arrah! Tim avourneen why did you die

Ah! none of your gab says Biddy Magee

Repeat Chourus: --

Then Peggy O'Connor took up the job

Arrah! Biddy says she, you're wrong I'm sure

But Biddy gave her a belt on the gob

And left her sprawling on the floor

Each side in war did soon enrage

'Twas woman to woman and man to man

Shillelagh-law was all the rage

And a row and a ruction soon began.

Repeat Chourus: --

Mickey Maloney raised his head

When a gallon of whiskey flew at him

It missed and landed on the bed

The whiskey scattered over Tim

Bedad he revives! see how he rises

Tim Finnegan junping from the bed

Crying While he ran around like blazes

Thundering blazes ye think I'm dead.

上に記載した歌詞とは少し異なりますが、FINNEGANS WAKE を以下の動画で聞くことができました。The Irish Rovers というグループによる演奏です。