Let your quacks and newspapers be cutting their About curing the the scratch and the gout With their potions, their serums and their lotions their notions, they're mighty put out.
Who can the true physic to all that's pathetic And to the divil, cramp, colic and spleen You'll know it I if you take a big drink With mouth to the brink of a jug of poteen
So stick to the cratur' the thing in nature For sinking your sorrows and raising your Oh what botheration, no in the nation Can give consolation like me boys.
No cosmetic to lovers athletic Or pathetic can give such a bloom As the sweet by the in the garden of flowers Ever gave own bowers such a darling perfume And liquid so rare if you willingly share To be taking your hair it's frizzled and dead Oh the sod has the merit to the true spirit So strong it will shake all the hairs from head
Then to the cratur' the best thing in nature For sinking your sorrows and raising joys Oh its perfection, no doctor's direction Can cleanse the complexion poteen me boys
While a child in me cradle, me nurse her ladle Was filling my with a notion of pap When a drop from her fell into my throttle I and capered clean out of her lap
On the floor I lay crawlin' and screaming and 'Til me mother and father were called to the All sobbing and sighing feared I was dying But soon found I only was for more.
So stick to the cratur' the thing in nature For your sorrows and raising your joys Oh lord how they'd chuckle if babes in truckle They only suckle on poteen me boys
Through my aggression, through times of depression My childhood's impression still to my mind And at school or at college the of knowledge I never could gulp 'til whiskey combined
And as I'm growing times ever bestowin' On Erin's potation, a so fine And how ere they may lecture on and his nectar Itself is the only true liquid
So stick to the cratur' the thing in nature For sinking your sorrows and raising your Oh lord, 'tis the thing for courting and fighting There's so exciting as poteen me boys.
guess me this riddle, what beats pipes and fiddle What's than mustard and milder than cream best wets your whistle, what's clearer than crystal What's sweeter than and stronger than steam
What'll make the lame walk, what will make the talk, The elixir of life and philospher's And what helped Mr. Brunnell to build the Thames Wasn't it poteen from ould
So stick to the cratur' the best thing in For sinking your sorrows and raising your Oh lord, it's no wonder, if lightning and Weren't made from the plunder of me boys.
You pathetic, with lovers athletic For liquid cosmetic, you can't the drop With a glow to cheek, it will make your 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 peel to the Then 'tis he'd be while you'd be athletic If only you'd take a few of the stuff
So to the cratur' the best thing in nature For sinking your sorrows and raising joys For there's nothing like whiskey to make maidens It soon separates all the men the boys.