Let your quacks and newspapers be cutting capers curing 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 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 your sorrows and raising your joys Oh botheration, no dose in the nation Can consolation like poteen me boys.
No liquid cosmetic to lovers Or bodies pathetic can give a bloom As the sweet by the powers in the of flowers gave their own bowers such a darling perfume And this liquid so if you willingly share To be taking hair when it's frizzled and dead Oh the sod has the merit to the true spirit So it will shake all the hairs from your head
stick to the cratur' the best thing in nature For sinking your sorrows and your joys Oh since its perfection, no doctor's Can cleanse the complexion poteen me boys
While a child in me cradle, me nurse with her Was filling my mouth with a of pap When a drop from her bottle fell into my I and capered clean out of her lap
On the floor I lay crawlin' and screaming and 'Til me and father were called to the fore All sobbing and they feared I was dying But soon found I was crying for more.
So stick to the the best thing in nature For sinking your sorrows and raising your Oh lord how they'd chuckle if babes in truckle They only could on poteen me boys
Through my youthful aggression, through of depression My childhood's still clung to my mind And at school or at the basis of knowledge I never gulp 'til with whiskey combined
And as older I'm growing times ever On Erin's potation, a so fine And how ere they may on jove and his nectar Itself is the true liquid divine
So stick to the the best thing in nature For sinking your sorrows and raising your Oh lord, 'tis the right for courting and fighting There's nowt so as poteen me boys.
Come me this riddle, what beats pipes and fiddle hotter than mustard and milder than cream What best wets your whistle, what's clearer crystal What's than honey and stronger than steam
What'll make the lame walk, what make the dumb talk, The elixir of life and stone And helped Mr. Brunnell to build the Thames Tunnel it poteen from ould Inisowen
So stick to the cratur' the best in nature For sinking your sorrows and your joys Oh lord, it's no wonder, if lightning and Weren't made from the plunder of me boys.
You maidens pathetic, with lovers For liquid cosmetic, you can't beat the With a glow to your cheek, it will make your leap It'll quiet a stallion or an old cob At the mouth you would drool, be reduced to a You'd kick up your and you'd peel to the buff 'tis he'd be pathetic while you'd be athletic If only you'd 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 whiskey to make maidens frisky It separates all the men from the boys.