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 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 whiskey or vodka, ten in the wood" Says I, "I'll try cider, I heard it's good"
Oh never, oh never, oh again I live to a hundred or a and ten I to the ground and I couldn't get up drinking a pint of the Johnny Jump Up
After lowering the third I headed straight for the Where I into Brophy the big civic guard "Come here to me boy you know the law" Well I upped with my and I shattered his jaw
He to the ground with his knees crumpled up For I hit him t'was the johnny jump And the thing I met down in Youghal by the Sea Was a cripple on crutches, and he to me
"I'm afraid o' me life be hit by a car you help me across to the Railwayman's Bar" And after pints of that cider so sweet He threw down his crutches and he on his feet
Oh never, oh never, oh again I live to a or a hundred and ten Cause I to the ground and I couldn't get up drinking 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 these if you can the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran'" "Tell them I'm not crazy, tell I'm not mad T'was only six pints of cider I had"
Now a man in the Union by the name of McNabb They washed him and placed him on a slab And after the coroner his measurements did His wife took him home to a fine wake
'Twas 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 I bring them a pint 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 drinking a pint of the Johnny Jump Up (2x)