[Verso 1]
 
    Am            F       C                         G 
Oh, whiskey's the life of man, but whiskey's mostly water 
         Am                F      C                     G         F 
And it's whiskey fuels the worker and corrupts his only daughter 
                   C            F                   C        F 
The mountain water in the still, the copper pipes a-steamin' 
                         Em               Dm               G 
There'll soon be whiskey in the glass and dreamers gone to dreamin' 


[Refrão]
 
             F                  Em 
Oh, it's the dreamin', it's the dreamin' 
  F                       Dm                   G 
A young girl's prayer, an old man's thoughts a-reelin' 
           F             G         Am 
Two lovers stealin', the moonlight beamin' 
             Dm       G         C 
Oh, it's the dreamin', it's the dreamin' 


[Verso 2]
 
      Am              F      C                         G 
Oh, I met her down in Dublin town, like a bottle fly I fell 
       Am            F         C                  G      F 
To the spider in the Blackbush of the old railway hotel 
                   C                      F                 C 
I spun my web from Liffey's walls, to the back room down at Whelan's 
     F                Em             Dm              G 
But, oh, how sweet my poison, now is drowning in the dreamin' 


[Refrão]

             F                  Em 
Oh, it's the dreamin', it's the dreamin' 
  F                       Dm                   G 
A young girl's prayer, an old man's thoughts a-reelin' 
           F             G         Am 
Two lovers stealin', the moonlight beamin' 
             Dm       G         C 
Oh, it's the dreamin', it's the dreamin' 

Instrumental: F    Am    Dm  G  C 


[Verso 3]
 
    Am                F      C                     G 
Oh, whiskey's made of water, lads, barley, corn or malt 
    Am              F      C                     G     F 
And man and woman's water, mixed with poetry and salt 
                     C                 F               C 
Bring on the pullin' of the tides, the flash of eyes a-gleamin' 
     F                  Em            Dm               G 
When passion blends the elements, the yeast is but the dreamin' 


[Refrão]
 
             F                  Em 
Oh, it's the dreamin', it's the dreamin' 
  F                       Dm                   G 
A young girl's prayer, an old man's thoughts a-reelin' 
           F             G         Am 
Two lovers stealin', the moonlight beamin' 
               Dm      G                  C 
The search for meaning, leads through the dreamin' 
    Am            F       C 
Oh, whiskey's the life of man