(Chorus:
Hi da diddle idle um
diddly doodle idle um
diddly do rye diddly eye ay)

Let grasses grow and waters flow
in a free and easy way
but give me enough of the fine old stuff
thats made near Galway Bay

and Peelers all from Donegal
Sligo and Leitrim too
We'll give them the slip and we'll take a sip
of the real old mountain dew

(Chorus)
Hi da diddle idle um
diddly doodle idle um
diddly do rye diddly eye ay)

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
that there's pocheen brewin nearby

for it fills the air with odours rare
and betwixt both me and you
when home you stroll you can take a bowl
or a bucket of the mountain dew

(Chorus)
Hi da diddle idle um
diddly doodle idle um
diddly do rye diddly eye ay)

Now learn'ed men who use the pen
have wrote your praises high
this sweet pocheen from Ireland green
distilled from wheat and rye

Throw away your pills, it'll cure all ills
of Pagan or Christian or Jew
Take off your coat and please your throat
with the real old mountain dew.

(Chorus)
Hi da diddle idle um
diddly doodle idle um
diddly do rye diddly eye ay)

(Chorus)
Hi da diddle idle um
diddly doodle idle um
diddly do rye diddly eye ay)

*** The Clancy Brothers have always done the definitive version ***