And, bedad, it was coulder than plisint,

Out they fished me, and stretched me full length on the quay,

But the divil a docthor was prisint,

When a blessed ould woman of eighty came by

(There’s no doubt expariance had taught her),

And—in jist a pig’s whisper—I tell ye no lie—

Fetched me to, wid hot Whisky and Wather.

It’s the loveliest liquor ye iver can take,

And no matther how often ye take it;

The great thing is never to mix it too wake: