Let quacks and newspapers be cutting their capers About the vapors the scratch and the gout With their medical potions, serums and their lotions Upholding notions, they're mighty put out.
Who can tell the true physic to all pathetic And pitch to the divil, cramp, colic and You'll know it I think if you take a big your mouth to the brink of a jug of poteen
So to the cratur' the best thing in nature For sinking your sorrows and your joys Oh botheration, no dose in the nation Can give consolation like me boys.
No liquid cosmetic to athletic Or bodies pathetic can give such a As the sweet by the powers in the of flowers Ever gave own bowers such a darling perfume And liquid so rare if you willingly share To be taking your hair when frizzled and dead Oh the sod has the merit to the true spirit So strong it will shake all the hairs from your
Then stick to the the best thing in nature For sinking sorrows and raising your joys Oh since its perfection, no direction Can cleanse the complexion like poteen me
a child in me cradle, me nurse with her ladle Was filling my mouth a notion 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 and bawling me mother and father were called to the fore All sobbing and sighing they I was dying But soon I only was crying for more.
So stick to the cratur' the best in nature For sinking sorrows and raising your joys Oh lord how chuckle if babes in their truckle They only could on poteen me boys
Through my youthful aggression, through times of My childhood's impression still 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 so fine And how ere they may lecture on and his nectar Itself is the only true liquid
So stick to the the best thing in nature For sinking sorrows and raising your joys Oh lord, the right thing for courting and fighting nowt so exciting as poteen me boys.
Come guess me this riddle, what beats pipes and What's hotter than mustard and than cream What best wets your whistle, what's clearer than What's sweeter than honey and stronger steam
What'll make the lame walk, will make the dumb talk, The elixir of and philospher's stone And helped Mr. Brunnell to build the Thames Tunnel Wasn't it poteen from ould
So stick to the cratur' the best thing in 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 athletic For liquid cosmetic, you beat the drop With a glow to your cheek, it will make your leap quiet a stallion or cure an old cob At the mouth you would drool, be reduced to a You'd kick up heels and you'd peel to the buff Then 'tis he'd be pathetic while be athletic If you'd take a few drops of the stuff
So stick to the cratur' the best in nature For your sorrows and raising your joys For there's nothing like whiskey to maidens frisky It soon all the men from the boys.