I'll tell you a story happened to me One day as I went to Youghal by the Sea The sun it was and the day it was warm 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 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 to a hundred or a hundred and ten I fell to the ground and I get up After drinking a of the Johnny Jump Up
After lowering the third I headed for the yard Where I bumped into Brophy the big guard "Come here to me boy you we're the law" I upped with my fist and I shattered his jaw
He to the ground with his knees crumpled up For t'wasnt I hit him t'was the jump 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 me across to the Railwayman's Bar" And after pints of that cider so sweet He down 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 to the ground and I couldn't get up drinking a pint of the Johnny Jump Up
Now I up the Lee Road a friend for to see They it the Madhouse in Cork by the Lee But I got up there, the truth I do to tell They had the poor locked up in his cell
Says the guard him, "Say these words if you can 'Around the rugged rocks the rascal ran'" "Tell I'm not crazy, tell them I'm not mad T'was only six pints of that I had"
Now a man died in the Union by the name of washed him and placed him outside on a slab And after the coroner his measurements did His wife took him to a bloody fine wake
'Twas twelve o'clock and the beer it was high The corpse he sat up and he says 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 live to a or a hundred and ten 'Cause I fell to the ground and I get up After drinking a pint of the Johnny Up (2x)