"'There'll be one good day's work done on the head of the trial,' she said. 'How so?' asked the sergeant. 'Dan Canty will make a great brew of poteen while he have all yeer backs turned.' 'I'll get Dan Canty yet,' replied the sergeant stiffly. - Frank O'Connor, 'In The Train'.
There's a neat little still at the foot of the hill, Where the smoke curls up to the sky By a whiff of the smell you can plainly tell That there's poteen boys close by. For it fills the air with a perfume rare And betwixt both me and you As home we roll, we can drink a bowl Or a bucketful of mountain dew. --"Mountain Dew," trad. arr. The Pogues
p.s. I posted the lyrics on the mountain dew page some time ago. I am so completely lazy that instead of checking there first, I posted them here from Wikipedia. So sue me.
"'There'll be one good day's work done on the head of the trial,' she said.
'How so?' asked the sergeant.
'Dan Canty will make a great brew of poteen while he have all yeer backs turned.'
'I'll get Dan Canty yet,' replied the sergeant stiffly.
- Frank O'Connor, 'In The Train'.
There's a neat little still at the foot of the hill,
Where the smoke curls up to the sky
By a whiff of the smell you can plainly tell
That there's poteen boys close by.
For it fills the air with a perfume rare
And betwixt both me and you
As home we roll, we can drink a bowl
Or a bucketful of mountain dew.
--"Mountain Dew," trad. arr. The Pogues
p.s. I posted the lyrics on the mountain dew page some time ago. I am so completely lazy that instead of checking there first, I posted them here from Wikipedia. So sue me.