The Humours Of Whiskey

what’s hotter than mustard, and milder than cream?

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What best wets your whistle? What’s clearer than crystal,

sweeter than honey, and stronger than steam?

What can make the dumb talk? What can make the lame walk?

What’s the elixir of life and philosopher’s stone?

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And what helped Mr. Brunel to dig the Thames tunnel?

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Sure wasn’t it whiskey from old Innishowen?

So stick to the cratur the best thing in nature

for sinking your sorrows and raising your joys.

And boys, I'd half wonder if lightning and thunder

was made from the plunder of whiskey me boys.