Mountain Dew<br>
Mountain Dew<br>
Traditional<br>
Verse & chorus: (343K) | (78K)<br>
"Mountain Dew" is performed by Wild Mountain Thyme<br>
on their CD Depraved.<br>
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Notes: Poitin (or poteen or potcheen) -- also<br>
called mountain dew -- is illegal whiskey.<br>
Chorus:<br>
Ah didlee ay dum<br>
ah diddlee ay dum<br>
Ah doo ray diddlee ai ay<br>
Ah didlee ay dum<br>
ah diddlee ay dum<br>
Ah doo ray diddlee ai ay<br>
Let grasses grow and waters flow<br>
In a free and easy way<br>
Just give me enough of that fine old stuff<br>
that's made near Galway Bay<br>
The police men from old Donegal<br>
Sligo and Lietrin too<br>
We'll give them the slip and we'll take a sip<br>
Of that real old Mountain Dew<br>
At the foot of the hill there's a neat little still<br>
Where the smoke curls up to the sky<br>
By the smoke and the smell you can plainly tell<br>
There's poitin brewin near by<br>
It fills the air with a perfume rare<br>
But betwixt both me and you<br>
When home we go you can take a bowl<br>
Or a bucket of the Mountain Dew<br>
Now learned men who use a pen<br>
Have wrote your praises high<br>
That sweet poitin from Ireland green<br>
is stilled from wheat and rye<br>
Put away your pills, it'll cure all ills<br>
Be ye Christian, pagan or Jew<br>
Take off your coat and grease your throat<br>
With a bucket of the Mountain Dew<br>