I'll you a story that happened to me One day as I went to Youghal by the Sea The sun it was bright and the day it was Says I, "A pint wouldn't do me no harm"
I to the barman, I says, "Give me a stout" the barman, "I'm sorry all the tis sold out Try whiskey or vodka, ten in the wood" Says I, "I'll try cider, I heard that good"
Oh never, oh never, oh never I live to a or a hundred and ten I to the ground and I couldn't get up After drinking a pint of the Jump Up
lowering the third I headed straight for the yard Where I bumped into Brophy the big civic "Come here to me boy you we're the law" Well I upped with my fist and I his jaw
He fell to the with his knees crumpled up For t'wasnt I hit him t'was the jump And the next I met down in Youghal by the Sea Was a cripple on crutches, and he to me
"I'm o' me life I'll be hit by a car Would you help me across to the Bar" And after three of that cider so sweet He threw his crutches and he danced on his feet
Oh never, oh never, oh again I live to a hundred or a and ten Cause I fell to the ground and I get up After drinking a of the Johnny Jump Up
Now I went up the Lee Road a for to see call it the Madhouse in Cork by the Lee But when I got up there, the truth I do to They had the poor bugger locked up in his
Says the guard him, "Say these words if you can 'Around the rugged the ragged rascal ran'" "Tell them I'm not crazy, tell I'm not mad T'was only six of that cider I had"
Now a man died in the Union by the of McNabb They washed him and placed him outside on a And after the coroner his did take His wife took him home to a bloody wake
about twelve o'clock and the beer it was high The corpse he sat up and he says with a I get to heaven, they won't let me up 'Til I bring them a pint of the Jump Up
Oh never, oh never, oh again If I to a hundred or a hundred and ten 'Cause I fell to the and I couldn't get up After drinking a pint of the Jump Up (2x)