D           A           E
what’s hotter than mustard, and milder than cream?
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What best wets your whistle? What’s clearer than crystal,
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sweeter than honey, and stronger than steam?

[Bridge]
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What can make the dumb talk? What can make the lame walk?
A                                  E          A
What’s the elixir of life and philosopher’s stone?

[Verse 2]
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And what helped Mr. Brunel to dig the Thames tunnel?
N.C.      A                     E       A
Sure wasn’t it whiskey from old Innishowen?
     A           E           A           E
So stick to the cratur the best thing in nature
    D             A           E            A
for sinking your sorrows and raising your joys.

[Outro]
    E                           A           D
And boys, I'd half wonder if lightning and thunder
     D             A            E          A
was made from the plunder of whiskey me boys.