I'll you a story that happened to me One day as I went down to by the Sea The sun it was bright and the day it was Says I, "A quiet pint do me no harm"
I to the barman, I says, "Give me a stout" the barman, "I'm sorry all the beer tis out Try or vodka, ten years in the wood" Says I, "I'll try cider, I heard it's good"
Oh never, oh never, oh again I to a hundred or a hundred and ten I fell to the ground and I get up drinking a pint of the Johnny Jump Up
After lowering the third I headed for the yard Where I bumped Brophy the big civic guard "Come to me boy you know we're the law" Well I upped my fist and I shattered his jaw
He fell to the ground with his crumpled up For I hit him t'was the johnny jump And the next thing I met down in by the Sea Was a on crutches, and says he to me
"I'm afraid o' me I'll be hit by a car Would you me across to the Railwayman's Bar" And after three pints of that cider so He threw down his crutches and he danced on his
Oh never, oh never, oh never I live to a or a hundred and ten I fell to the ground and I couldn't get up After a pint of the Johnny Jump Up
Now I went up the Lee Road a for to see They call it the Madhouse in by the Lee But when I got up there, the truth I do to They had the poor bugger up in his cell
Says the guard testing him, "Say words if you can 'Around the rocks the ragged rascal ran'" "Tell them I'm not crazy, them I'm not mad T'was six pints 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 the coroner his measurements did take His wife him home to a bloody fine wake
about twelve o'clock and the beer it was high The corpse he sat up and he with a sigh I can't get to heaven, won't let me up 'Til I bring them a of the Johnny Jump Up
Oh never, oh never, oh never If I to a hundred or a hundred and ten 'Cause I to the ground and I couldn't get up After drinking a pint of the Johnny Up (2x)