Let your quacks and newspapers be cutting their capersAbout curing the vapors the scratch and the goutWith their medical potions, their serums and their lotionsUpholding their notions, they're mighty put out.Who can tell the true physic to all that's patheticAnd pitch to the divil, cramp, colic and spleenYou'll know it I think if you take a big drinkWith your mouth to the brink of a jug of poteenSo stick to the cratur' the best thing in natureFor sinking your sorrows and raising your joysOh what botheration, no dose in the nationCan give consolation like poteen me boys.No liquid cosmetic to lovers athleticOr bodies pathetic can give such a bloomAs the sweet by the powers in the garden of flowersEver gave their own bowers such a darling perfumeAnd this liquid so rare if you willingly shareTo be taking your hair when it's frizzled and deadOh the sod has the merit to yield the true spiritSo strong it will shake all the hairs from your headThen stick to the cratur' the best thing in natureFor sinking your sorrows and raising your joysOh since its perfection, no doctor's directionCan cleanse the complexion like poteen me boysWhile a child in me cradle, me nurse with her ladleWas filling my mouth with a notion of papWhen a drop from her bottle fell into my throttleI stumbled and capered clean out of her lapOn the floor I lay crawlin' and screaming and bawling'Til me mother and father were called to the foreAll sobbing and sighing they feared I was dyingBut soon found I only was crying for more.So stick to the cratur' the best thing in natureFor sinking your sorrows and raising your joysOh lord how they'd chuckle if babes in their truckleThey only could suckle on poteen me boysThrough my youthful aggression, through times of depressionMy childhood's impression still clung to my mindAnd at school or at college the basis of knowledgeI never could gulp 'til with whiskey combinedAnd as older I'm growing times ever bestowin'On Erin's potation, a flavor so fineAnd how ere they may lecture on jove and his nectarItself is the only true liquid divineSo stick to the cratur' the best thing in natureFor sinking your sorrows and raising your joysOh lord, 'tis the right thing for courting and fightingThere's nowt so exciting as poteen me boys.Come guess me this riddle, what beats pipes and fiddleWhat's hotter than mustard and milder than creamWhat best wets your whistle, what's clearer than crystalWhat's sweeter than honey and stronger than steamWhat'll make the lame walk, what will make the dumb talk,The elixir of life and philospher's stoneAnd what helped Mr. Brunnell to build the Thames TunnelWasn't it poteen from ould InisowenSo stick to the cratur' the best thing in natureFor sinking your sorrows and raising your joysOh lord, it's no wonder, if lightning and thunderWeren't made from the plunder of poteen me boys.You maidens pathetic, with lovers athleticFor liquid cosmetic, you can't beat the dropWith a glow to your cheek, it will make your heart leapIt'll quiet a stallion or cure an old cobAt the mouth you would drool, be reduced to a foolYou'd kick up your heels and you'd peel to the buffThen 'tis he'd be pathetic while you'd be athleticIf only you'd take a few drops of the stuffSo stick to the cratur' the best thing in natureFor sinking your sorrows and raising your joysFor there's nothing like whiskey to make maidens friskyIt soon separates all the men from the boys.
Lyrics by Andy M. Stewart
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