source : http://www.chivalry.com/cantaria/lyrics/mountain_dew.html and http://www.vincentpeters.nl/triskelle/lyrics/mountaindew.php?index=080.010.060.050 Notes: Poitin (or poteen or potcheen) -- also called mountain dew -- is illegal whiskey. Illegal distilleries flourished in remote and inaccessible areas with fuel to feed the stills and mist to camouflage the smoke. The Hills of Connemara provided the best conditions with their virtually endless peat fields and clouds entrapped by the hills. --------------------------------------------------------------- Let grasses grow and waters flow In a free and easy way Just give me enough of that fine old stuff that's made near Galway Bay The police men from old Donegal Sligo and Lietrin too We'll give them the slip and we'll take a sip Of that real old Mountain Dew At the foot of the hill there's a neat little still Where the smoke curls up to the sky By the smoke and the smell you can plainly tell There's poitin brewin near by It fills the air with a perfume rare But betwixt both me and you When home we go you can take a bowl Or a bucket of the Mountain Dew Now learned men who use a pen Have wrote your praises high That sweet poitin from Ireland green is stilled from wheat and rye Put away your pills, it'll cure all ills Be ye Christian, pagan or Jew Take off your coat and grease your throat With a bucket of the Mountain Dew