Not this? 4th verse of SHEEPSHEARING AND THATCHING, sung by Fred Whiting of Kenton, Suffolk.

I asked a farmer's wife for home-brewed beer, and what do you think she said to me?
She said, "You should stick to drinking water: it's the strongest stuff there be.
Why, water is plenty strong enough to carry ships at sea."
I said, "A pint of good old home-brewed beer is strong enough for me."

WassaiL! V