Ale is Physic

Ale is physic, ale is physic, ale is physic for me!
Ale is physic, ale is physic, ale is physic for me!

In walking past a doctor's house at top of Newton Yeth,
And there I did a sudden stop and gan be feared to dee (die),
Me hand shak'd like an aspen leaf, I dithert down me shoon,
It seemt as dark as twelve at neet tho' twere but twelve at noon...

Ale is physic, ale is physic, ale is physic for me!
Ale is physic, ale is physic, ale is physic for me!

I thowt I'd see the gallows tree where Yorn-Croft theif were hung
And that Owd Nick were takin' me and there he'd have me hung,
I groped me way to t'doctor's door and there I tumb-led down,
Floor it gan me such a shot it welly broke me crown.

Ale is physic, ale is physic, ale is physic for me!
Ale is physic, ale is physic, ale is physic for me!

Now what were doctor thinking of to bring to mesel',
Un save a sick and dying mon so feart of death an' 'ell,
He used no lance, he used no drug it quickens or it soothes,
But brought a jug of one brewed ale that had come from Willy Booth's.

Ale is physic, ale is physic, ale is physic for me!
Ale is physic, ale is physic, ale is physic for me!

He placed it in me wackerin' hand that were so pale and thin,
I swiped it off at a woint (once) and I've never ailed now't since.

Ale is physic, ale is physic, ale is physic for me!
Ale is physic, ale is physic, ale is physic for me!