Let your quacks and newspapers be cutting capers curing the vapors the scratch and the gout With their medical potions, serums and their lotions Upholding notions, they're 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 With mouth to the brink of a jug of poteen
So to the cratur' the best thing in nature For your sorrows and raising your joys Oh what botheration, no in the nation Can consolation like poteen me boys.
No liquid cosmetic to lovers Or bodies pathetic can give a bloom As the by the powers in the garden of flowers gave their own bowers such a darling perfume And this liquid so rare if you willingly To be taking your hair 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 thing in nature For sinking your sorrows and your joys Oh its perfection, no doctor's direction Can cleanse the complexion like poteen me
a child in me cradle, me nurse with her ladle Was filling my with a notion of pap When a drop her bottle fell into my throttle I and capered clean out of her lap
On the I lay crawlin' and screaming and bawling me mother and father were called to the fore All sobbing and they feared I was dying But found I only was crying 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 in their truckle They only could on poteen me boys
Through my aggression, through times of depression My childhood's impression still to my mind And at school or at the basis of knowledge I never gulp 'til with whiskey combined
And as I'm growing times ever bestowin' On Erin's potation, a flavor so And how ere they may on jove and his nectar Itself is the true liquid divine
So to the cratur' the best thing in nature For sinking your and raising your joys Oh lord, 'tis the right for courting and fighting There's so exciting as poteen me boys.
Come guess me this riddle, what beats and fiddle What's hotter than mustard and than cream What best wets your whistle, clearer than crystal What's than honey and stronger than steam
What'll make the walk, what will make the dumb talk, The elixir of life and stone And what helped Mr. to build the Thames Tunnel Wasn't it from ould Inisowen
So stick to the the best thing in nature For sinking your sorrows and raising joys Oh lord, no wonder, if lightning and thunder Weren't made from the of poteen 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 a stallion or cure an old cob At the mouth you would drool, be to a fool You'd kick up heels and you'd peel to the buff Then he'd be pathetic while you'd be athletic If only you'd take a few of the stuff
So stick to the the best thing in nature For your sorrows and raising your joys For there's nothing whiskey to make maidens frisky It separates all the men from the boys.