Let your quacks and newspapers be cutting their About curing the 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 to all that's pathetic And to the divil, cramp, colic and spleen You'll it I think if you take a big drink With mouth to the brink of a jug of poteen
So stick to the cratur' the best in nature For sinking sorrows and raising your joys Oh what botheration, no in the nation Can give like poteen me boys.
No liquid cosmetic to lovers Or pathetic can give such a bloom As the by the powers in the garden of flowers gave their own bowers such a darling perfume And this liquid so rare if you share To be taking hair when it's frizzled and dead Oh the sod has the to yield the true spirit So strong it will all the hairs from your head
Then to the cratur' the best thing in nature For sinking your sorrows and raising joys Oh its perfection, no doctor's direction Can cleanse the complexion like poteen me
While a child in me cradle, me nurse with her Was filling my mouth with a of pap When a drop from her 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 to the fore All sobbing and they feared I was dying But found I only was crying for more.
So stick to the cratur' the thing in nature For sinking your sorrows and your joys Oh lord how chuckle if babes in their truckle They only could suckle on me boys
my youthful aggression, through times of depression My childhood's impression clung to my mind And at school or at the basis of knowledge I never could gulp 'til with whiskey
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 true divine
So to the cratur' the best thing in nature For sinking your sorrows and raising your Oh lord, 'tis the right for courting and fighting nowt so exciting as poteen me boys.
Come guess me this riddle, what beats pipes and What's hotter mustard and milder than cream What wets your whistle, what's clearer than crystal What's sweeter than honey and than steam
What'll make the lame walk, will make the dumb talk, The elixir of life and stone And what helped Mr. Brunnell to the Thames Tunnel Wasn't it poteen ould Inisowen
So stick to the cratur' the best in nature For sinking sorrows and raising your joys Oh lord, it's no wonder, if lightning and Weren't from the plunder of poteen me boys.
You maidens pathetic, lovers athletic For liquid cosmetic, you can't beat the a glow to your cheek, it will make your heart leap It'll a stallion or cure an old cob At the mouth you drool, be reduced to a fool You'd kick up your heels and you'd to the buff 'tis he'd be pathetic while you'd be athletic If only you'd a few drops of the stuff
So stick to the cratur' the best thing in For sinking your and raising your joys For there's nothing like to make maidens frisky It soon separates all the men the boys.