Let your quacks and newspapers be cutting capers curing the vapors the scratch and the gout With their medical potions, their and their lotions Upholding notions, they're mighty put out.
Who can tell the true physic to all that's And to the divil, cramp, colic and spleen You'll know it I if you take a big drink your mouth to the brink of a jug of poteen
So stick to the cratur' the best in nature For sinking sorrows and raising your joys Oh what botheration, no dose in the Can give like poteen me boys.
No liquid cosmetic to athletic Or pathetic can give such a bloom As the sweet by the powers in the garden of Ever gave own bowers such a darling perfume And this liquid so rare if you share To be taking your hair when it's 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 since its perfection, no direction Can cleanse the like poteen me boys
While a in me cradle, me nurse with her ladle Was my mouth with a notion of pap When a drop from her bottle fell my throttle I stumbled and clean 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 they feared I was dying But soon I only was crying for more.
So to the cratur' the best thing in nature For sinking your sorrows and your joys Oh lord how they'd chuckle if in their truckle They only could on poteen me boys
my youthful aggression, through times of depression My childhood's impression still to my mind And at school or at college the of knowledge I could gulp 'til with whiskey combined
And as I'm growing times ever bestowin' On potation, a flavor so fine And how ere may lecture on jove and his nectar Itself is the only true divine
So stick to the the best thing in nature For sinking sorrows and raising 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 mustard and milder than cream What best your whistle, what's clearer than crystal What's sweeter than honey and stronger 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 the Thames Tunnel Wasn't it poteen from Inisowen
So stick to the the best thing in nature For sinking your sorrows and your joys Oh lord, no wonder, if lightning and thunder Weren't made from the of poteen me boys.
You maidens pathetic, lovers athletic For liquid cosmetic, you can't beat the With a glow to your cheek, it will make your leap It'll a stallion or cure an old cob At the mouth you would drool, be to a fool You'd up your heels and you'd peel to the buff Then 'tis be pathetic 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 your joys For there's nothing like to make maidens frisky It soon separates all the men the boys.