Let your quacks and be cutting their capers curing the vapors the scratch and the gout With medical potions, their serums and their lotions their notions, they're mighty put out.
Who can tell the true physic to all pathetic And pitch to the divil, cramp, and spleen You'll know it I if you take a big drink With your mouth to the of a jug of poteen
So to the cratur' the best thing in nature For sinking your and raising your joys Oh what botheration, no dose in the Can give consolation poteen me boys.
No liquid cosmetic to lovers Or pathetic can give such a bloom As the sweet by the in the garden of flowers Ever gave their own bowers a darling perfume And this so rare if you willingly share To be taking your hair when it's frizzled and Oh the sod has the merit to the true spirit So strong it will shake all the hairs your head
stick to the cratur' the best thing in nature For sinking your sorrows and raising joys Oh since its perfection, no direction Can cleanse the like poteen me boys
While a child in me cradle, me nurse her ladle Was my mouth with a notion of pap When a 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 were called to the fore All and sighing they feared I was dying But soon found I 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 babes in their They only suckle on poteen me boys
Through my youthful aggression, through of depression My childhood's impression still to my mind And at school or at college the of knowledge I never could gulp with whiskey combined
And as older I'm growing ever bestowin' On potation, a flavor so fine And how ere may lecture on jove and his nectar Itself is the only liquid divine
So stick to the the best thing in nature For your sorrows and raising your joys Oh lord, the right thing for courting and fighting There's nowt so as poteen me boys.
guess me this riddle, what beats pipes and fiddle What's than mustard and milder than cream What best your whistle, what's 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 philospher's And what helped Mr. to build the Thames Tunnel Wasn't it from ould Inisowen
So to the cratur' the best 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 pathetic, with lovers athletic For liquid cosmetic, you can't beat the With a glow to your cheek, it will your heart leap quiet a stallion or cure an old cob At the mouth you would drool, be reduced to a You'd kick up your heels and peel to the buff 'tis he'd be pathetic while you'd be athletic If only you'd take a few drops of the
So stick to the cratur' the best in nature For sinking your and raising your joys For there's nothing like whiskey to make frisky It separates all the men from the boys.