Let quacks and newspapers be cutting their capers curing the vapors the scratch and the gout With their potions, their serums and their lotions Upholding notions, they're mighty put out.
Who can tell the true to all that's pathetic And to the divil, cramp, colic and spleen know it I think if you take a big drink With mouth to the brink of a jug of poteen
So stick to the the best thing in nature For sinking sorrows and raising your joys Oh what botheration, no in the nation Can give consolation poteen me boys.
No liquid cosmetic to lovers Or bodies can give such a bloom As the sweet by the in the garden of flowers Ever gave their own bowers a darling perfume And this liquid so rare if you willingly To be your hair when it's frizzled and dead Oh the sod has the merit to yield the true So strong it will all the hairs from your head
Then stick to the cratur' the best in nature For sinking your sorrows and raising joys Oh since its perfection, no direction Can cleanse the complexion poteen me boys
a child in me cradle, me nurse with her ladle Was filling my with a notion of pap a drop from her bottle fell into my throttle I stumbled and capered out of her lap
On the floor I lay crawlin' and screaming and 'Til me mother and father called to the fore All sobbing and sighing they I was dying But soon found I was crying for more.
So to the cratur' the best thing in nature For sinking your sorrows and raising joys Oh how they'd chuckle if babes in their truckle They only could suckle on poteen me
Through my aggression, through times of depression My childhood's still clung to my mind And at school or at college the of knowledge I never could gulp 'til with combined
And as I'm growing times ever bestowin' On Erin's potation, a flavor so And how ere they may lecture on jove and his is the only true liquid divine
So stick to the cratur' the best in nature For sinking your sorrows and raising joys Oh lord, 'tis the right thing for courting and There's so exciting as poteen me boys.
Come guess me this riddle, beats pipes and fiddle What's hotter than mustard and than cream What best your whistle, what's clearer than crystal What's sweeter than and stronger than steam
What'll make the lame walk, will make the dumb talk, The elixir of life and philospher's And helped Mr. Brunnell to build the Thames Tunnel Wasn't it from ould Inisowen
So stick to the cratur' the thing in nature For sinking your and raising your joys Oh lord, it's no wonder, if and thunder made from the plunder of poteen me boys.
You maidens pathetic, with lovers For liquid cosmetic, you can't the drop With a glow to your cheek, it will make heart leap It'll quiet a or cure an old cob At the you would drool, be reduced to a fool You'd kick up your heels and you'd to the buff 'tis he'd be pathetic while you'd be athletic If only you'd a few drops of the stuff
So stick to the cratur' the thing in nature For your sorrows and raising your joys For nothing like whiskey to make maidens frisky It soon separates all the men the boys.