Let your quacks and be cutting their capers About the vapors the scratch and the gout With medical potions, their serums and their lotions Upholding their notions, 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 your mouth to the brink of a jug of poteen
So stick to the the best thing in nature For sinking your sorrows and your joys Oh what botheration, no dose in the Can consolation like poteen me boys.
No liquid cosmetic to athletic Or bodies pathetic can give such a As the sweet by the powers in the garden of Ever gave their own such a darling perfume And this liquid so if you willingly share To be taking your hair it's frizzled and dead Oh the sod has the merit to yield the true So it will shake all the hairs from your head
stick to the cratur' the best thing in nature For sinking your sorrows and raising joys Oh since its perfection, no doctor's Can cleanse the like poteen me boys
a child in me cradle, me nurse with her ladle Was filling my with a notion of pap a drop from her bottle fell into my throttle I and capered clean out of her lap
On the floor I lay crawlin' and and bawling 'Til me mother and father were called to the All sobbing and sighing they 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 babes in their only could suckle on poteen me boys
Through my youthful aggression, times of depression My impression still clung to my mind And at or at college the basis of knowledge I never could gulp 'til with combined
And as I'm growing times ever bestowin' On Erin's potation, a flavor so And how ere they may lecture on jove and his is the only true liquid divine
So stick to the the best thing in nature For your sorrows and raising your joys Oh lord, 'tis the thing for courting and fighting There's nowt so exciting as me boys.
Come guess me this riddle, what beats pipes and What's hotter than mustard and milder cream What best wets your whistle, what's than crystal What's than honey and stronger than steam
What'll the lame walk, what will make the dumb talk, The elixir of and philospher's stone And what helped Mr. Brunnell to build the Tunnel Wasn't it poteen ould Inisowen
So stick to the cratur' the thing in nature For sinking your sorrows and 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 your heart leap It'll quiet a or cure an old cob At the mouth you drool, be reduced to a fool You'd kick up your heels and peel to the buff Then 'tis 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 sinking your sorrows and raising your For there's nothing like whiskey to make maidens It soon all the men from the boys.