The Poitin Song chords by The Irish Rovers

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Verse 1
F 
Let your  (F major) quacks and newspapers
C 
be  (C major) cutting their capers
F 
And  (F major) curing the vapors,
D 
the scratch or the  (D major) gout
F 
With their  (F major) magical potions,
C 
their  (C major) pills and their lotions
F 
C 
 (F major) Upholding their  (C major) no tions,
F 
well,  (F major) they're mighty put out
What's good for the sneezing,
the coughing and wheezing
C 
F 
 (C major) Likewise will  (F major) be azing,
cram colic or spleen
Well, you'll know it, I think,
C 
if you take a big  (C major) drink
F 
With your mouth full  (F major) to the brink
C 
E 
 (C major) of a jug  (E major) of poitin
C 
F 
So,  (C major) stick  (F major) to the crater,
the best thing in nature
C 
F 
 (C major) For sinking your  (F major) sorrows
and raising your joys
It's one of life's pleasures
E 
C 
to  (E major) sip at your leis (C major) ure
F 
It's  (F major) Ireland's own treasure,
the poitin, boys
As a child in the cradle
E 
me  (E major) nurse with her ladle
F 
was filling me  (F major) mouth with an ocean of pop
Till a drop from her bottle
fell into me throttle.
C 
I capered and  (C major) toppled all
F 
E 
 (F major)  (E major) out of her lap
C 
E 
 (C major) On the  (E major) floor I lay squalling
F 
 (F major) and screaming and bawling
E 
F 
Till  (E major) my parents  (F major) came calling
E 
F 
and  (E major) stepped to the  (F major) floor
E 
All sobbing  (E major) and sighing
C 
 (C major) they thought I was dying
F 
But  (F major) I  was just crying
E 
for a  (E major) drop or two more.
B 
D# 
F 
 (B major) So, stick  (D sharp major) to the  (F major) crater,
the best thing in nature,
E 
F 
For  (E major) sinking your  (F major) sorrows
and raising your joys.
It's one of life's pleasures
E 
to sip at  (E major) your leisure,
Am 
E 
It's  (A minor) Ire  land's own treas (E major) ure,
F 
 (F major) the Pudge in me boys.
E 
Come  (E major) guess me this riddle,
B 
what baits,  (B major) pipes and fiddle
E 
 (E major) Was hotter than mustard
C# 
and smoother than  (C sharp major) cream?
E 
 (E major) What best would your whistle?
B 
Was clearer  (B major) than crystal,
E 
Was sweeter than  (E major) honey
G# 
D# 
E 
and  (G sharp major) stronger  (D sharp major) than  (E major) steam?
B 
E 
 (B major) What'll make the lamb  (E major) walk?
What'll make the dumb talk?
The elixir of life,
the philosopher's stone?
And might help Mr. Brunnell
B 
to dig the Thames  (B major) Tunnel
E 
B 
Sure  (E major) wasn't it poch (B major) in'
E 
from  (E major) Owl in a shawn
B 
E 
D# 
E 
So  (B major) stick  (E major) to  (D sharp major) the   (E major) crater,
the best thing in nature
D# 
E 
For  (D sharp major) sinkin' your  (E major) sorrows
and raisin' your joys
It's one of life's pleasures
B 
to sip at your leis (B major) ure
E 
B 
It's  (E major) irons on treasure,  (B major) 
E 
 (E major) they're patching me boys.
Well the English I'm thinking,
D# 
E 
 (D sharp major) to say that they're  (E major) drinking,
And their glasses are clinking,
D# 
C# 
while  (D sharp major) their senses take  (C sharp major) leave.
E 
 (E major) Should they'll soon be demented,
D# 
from  (D sharp major) apples fermented,
E 
 (E major) Just look what tar minted,
D# 
bought  (D sharp major) Adam and Eve.
E 
 (E major) Now the French have their brandy,
it makes them quite randy,
B 
E 
 (B major) And they find it  (E major) goes handy
D# 
E 
with (D sharp major) in her  (E major) arty
And a single malt whisky
can make the Scots frisky
G#m 
E 
But for  (G sharp minor) quenching the  (E major) thirst,
D# 
it's the Pudgeon  (D sharp major) for  me
E 
D# 
So  (E major) stick  (D sharp major) to   the crater,
E 
 (E major) the best thing in nature
D# 
E 
For  (D sharp major) sink ing your  (E major) sorrows
and raising your joys
It's one of life's pleasures,
to sip at your leisure.
D# 
E 
 (D sharp major) It's  (E major) irons on treasure.
The Pudgy Millie Boys!
Have another drink, boys.
There we go.
That's Sean O'Driscoll. Well done.