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