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    Mountain dew

    Let the grasses grow
    and the waters flow in a free and easy way
    But give me enough of the rare old stuff
    that’s made near Galway Bay
    Come gangers all from Donegal,
    Sligo and Leitrim too
    Oh, we’ll give ’em a slip
    and we’ll take a sip of the rare old mountain dew

    thiddle i ay di diddle dum thiddle i ay di diddle dum
    thiddle i ay di diddle dum rum a dum dey
    thiddle i ay di diddle dum thiddle i ay di diddle dum
    thiddle i ay di diddle dum rum a dum dey

    There’s a neat little still at the foot of the hill,
    where the smoke curls up to the sky
    By a whiff of the smell you can plainly tell,
    that there’s poitín, boys, close by
    For it fills the air with a perfume rare,
    and betwixt both me and you
    As home we roll, we can drink a bowl,
    or a bucketful of mountain dew

    thiddle i ay di diddle dum thiddle i ay di diddle dum
    thiddle i ay di diddle dum rum a dum dey
    thiddle i ay di diddle dum thiddle i ay di diddle dum
    thiddle i ay di diddle dum rum a dum dey

    Now learned men as use the pen,
    have writ the praises high
    Of the sweet poitín from Ireland green,
    distilled from wheat and rye
    Away with yer pills, it’ll cure all ills,
    be ye Pagan, Christian or Jew
    So take off your coat
    and grease your throat with a bucketful of mountain dew