Let your quacks and newspapers be cutting capers About curing the the scratch and the gout With their potions, their serums and their lotions Upholding their notions, mighty put out.
Who can tell the true to all that's pathetic And pitch to the divil, cramp, colic and You'll know it I think if you take a big With your mouth to the brink of a jug of
So stick to the cratur' the best in nature For sinking your sorrows and raising joys Oh botheration, no dose in the nation Can give consolation like me boys.
No liquid to lovers athletic Or bodies pathetic can give a bloom As the sweet by the powers in the garden of Ever their own bowers such a darling perfume And liquid so rare if you willingly share To be taking hair when it's frizzled and dead Oh the sod has the merit to yield the true So strong it will shake all the hairs your head
Then stick to the the best thing in nature For sinking your sorrows and raising your Oh its perfection, no doctor's direction Can cleanse the complexion like me boys
While a child in me cradle, me nurse her ladle Was filling my mouth 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 and bawling 'Til me and father were called to the fore All sobbing and sighing they I was dying But soon I only was crying for more.
So stick to the cratur' the best in nature For sinking your and raising your joys Oh lord how chuckle if babes in their truckle They only could suckle on me boys
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 gulp 'til with whiskey combined
And as older I'm growing times ever On potation, a flavor so fine And how ere may lecture on jove and his nectar Itself is the true liquid divine
So stick to the cratur' the thing in nature For sinking your sorrows and your joys Oh lord, 'tis the right thing for and fighting nowt so exciting as poteen me boys.
Come guess me this riddle, what pipes and fiddle What's hotter than mustard and milder than What best wets whistle, what's clearer than crystal What's sweeter than honey and stronger steam
What'll make the lame walk, what make the dumb talk, The elixir of life and stone And what helped Mr. Brunnell to the Thames Tunnel Wasn't it from ould Inisowen
So stick to the cratur' the best in nature For sinking sorrows and raising your joys Oh lord, no wonder, if lightning and thunder made from the plunder of poteen me boys.
You maidens pathetic, lovers athletic For cosmetic, you can't beat the drop With a glow to your cheek, it will make your heart 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 take a few drops of the stuff
So to the cratur' the best thing in nature For sinking sorrows and raising your joys For there's nothing like whiskey to make maidens It separates all the men from the boys.