Little craythur

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craythur = Irish whiskey

In the song "Finnegan's Wake," Tim Finnegan "had a sort o' the tipplin' way/ With a love of the liquor poor Tim was born/ And to help him on with his work each day/ He'd a drop of the craythur ev'ry morn."

While drunk, Tim falls from a ladder and dies. During his wake, he is splashed with whiskey and comes back to life.