I'll tell you a 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 wouldn't 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 never I live to a or a hundred and ten I fell to the and I couldn't get up After drinking a pint of the Jump Up
After the third I headed straight for the yard Where I bumped into Brophy the big civic "Come to me boy you know we're the law" Well I upped with my fist and I his jaw
He fell to the ground with his knees up For t'wasnt I hit him t'was the johnny And the next thing I met in Youghal by the Sea Was a on crutches, and says he to me
"I'm o' me life I'll be hit by a car Would you help me 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 Cause I fell to the ground and I get up After drinking a of the Johnny Jump Up
Now I up the Lee Road a friend for to see call it the Madhouse in Cork by the Lee But when I got up there, the I do to tell They had the poor bugger up in his cell
Says the guard testing him, "Say these if you can 'Around the rugged rocks the ragged ran'" "Tell them I'm not crazy, them I'm not mad T'was only six of that cider I had"
Now a man died in the Union by the name of They washed him and placed him on a slab And after the coroner his did take His took him home to a bloody fine wake
about twelve o'clock and the beer it was high The corpse he sat up and he says with a I can't get to heaven, they let me up 'Til I bring them a pint of the Johnny Up
Oh never, oh never, oh again If I to a hundred or a hundred and ten 'Cause I to the ground and I couldn't get up After a pint of the Johnny Jump Up (2x)