Stick To The Cratur ( Poteen)

Singer Tom Lenihan from Miltown Malbay at the Kilrush Fleadh in 1967. Tom also called the song Paddy s Let your quacks and newspapers be cuttin their capers And curing the vapors the scratch and the gout With their medical magical potions, their pills serums and their lotions Upholding their notions, they re mighty put out. Who You can tell the true physic of all things prophetic pathetic And pitch to the divil, cramp, colic and spleen You ll know it I think if you take a big drink With your mouth to the brink of a jug of poteen So stick to the cratur the best thing in nature For sinking your sorrows and raising your joys Oh what moderation gives hope to a nation Or brings consolation like poteen me boys. Oh what botheration, no dose in the nation Can give consolation like poteen me boys.