Paddys Panacea / Stick to the Cratur - Irish Folk

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Paddys Panacea aka Stick to the Craytur / The Humours of Whiskey.
Another song about drink!
Recorded by Tom Lenihan on the album 'Paddy’s Panacea - Songs Traditional in West Clare' (1977)
there are longer versions of the song out there, i picked the couple of verses that Tom Lenihan sings in the clip below.

lyrics;
Let your quacks and newspapers be cuttin' their capers
And curing the vapours the scratch and the gout,
With their medical potions, their pills and their lotions
Upholding their notions, they're mighty put out.

Who can tell the true physic to all that’s pathetic,
And pitch to the devil, cramp, colic and spleen.
You'll know it I think if you take a big drink
With your mouth to the brink of a glass of poteen

So stick to the cratur' the best thing in nature
For sinking your sorrows and raising your joys.
Oh what botheration no dose in the nation
Can give consolation like whiskey me boys.

Come guess me this riddle: what beats pipe and fiddle?
What's hotter than mustard and milder than cream?
What best wets your whistle? What's clearer than crystal?
What's sweeter than honey and stronger than steam?

What will make the dumb talk? What will make the lame walk?
The elixir of life and philosophers stone.
And what helped Mr. Brunel to dig the Thames Tunnel?
Wasn't it whiskey from ould Inishowen?

So stick to the cratur' the best thing in nature
For sinking your sorrows and raising your joys.
Oh lord, it's no wonder, if lightning and thunder
Was made from the plunder of whiskey me boys.