Yerrrrrrrrrr outta there!

;)

Though I've heard it pronounced to sound like "crater", Brían above has it pretty well covered.

I too learned it from the Andy M. Stewart/Manus Lunny album (Dublin Lady, Green Linnet), though I'd heard others do it, because that album had a lyric sheet enclosed (loved it when they did that).

When I used to sing it, I found I wanted more of a finish so I threw on 2 more choruses at the end:

then stick to the cratur, the best thing in nature
for sinkin' your sorrows and raisin' your joys
though we all take our measure of fortune and leisure
there's no such a treasure as poitín, my boys

then stick to the cratur, the best thing in nature
for sinkin' your sorrows and raisin' your joys
for all tribulations in all the world's nations
find nullification in poitín, my boys


Pretty good song actually.... ought to rotate it back into the set lists