Let your quacks and newspapers be their capers About the vapors the scratch and the gout With their medical potions, serums and their lotions their notions, they're mighty put out.
Who can the true physic to all that's pathetic And pitch to the divil, cramp, and spleen You'll it I think if you take a big drink With your to the brink of a jug of poteen
So stick to the the best thing in nature For sinking sorrows and raising your joys Oh what botheration, no dose in the Can give consolation poteen me boys.
No cosmetic to lovers athletic Or bodies pathetic can such a bloom As the sweet by the powers in the garden of Ever gave their own bowers 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 spirit So strong it will all the hairs from your head
Then stick to the cratur' the thing in nature For sinking your sorrows and raising your Oh since its perfection, no direction Can cleanse the complexion like me boys
While a child in me cradle, me with her ladle Was my mouth with 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 mother and were called to the fore All sobbing and sighing they I was dying But soon found I only was 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 still clung to my mind And at school or at college the basis of I never could gulp with whiskey combined
And as older I'm times ever bestowin' On Erin's potation, a so fine And how ere may lecture on jove and his nectar Itself is the only liquid divine
So stick to the cratur' the best thing in For sinking your sorrows and raising your Oh lord, 'tis the right thing for courting and There's nowt so exciting as me boys.
Come me this riddle, what beats pipes and fiddle What's hotter than mustard and milder than What wets your whistle, what's clearer than crystal sweeter than honey and stronger than steam
What'll make the walk, what will make the dumb talk, The of life and philospher's stone And what helped Mr. Brunnell to build the Thames Wasn't it poteen from Inisowen
So stick to the cratur' the best thing in For sinking your sorrows and raising your Oh lord, it's no wonder, if and thunder made from the plunder of poteen me boys.
You maidens pathetic, with athletic For liquid cosmetic, you can't the drop With a glow to your cheek, it will make your heart 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 Then 'tis he'd be pathetic while you'd be If only take a few drops of the stuff
So to the cratur' the best thing in nature For sinking your sorrows and your joys For nothing like whiskey to make maidens frisky It soon separates all the men the boys.