I'll tell you a story happened to me One day as I down to Youghal by the Sea The sun it was and the day it was warm Says I, "A quiet pint do me no harm"
I to the barman, I says, "Give me a stout" the barman, "I'm all the beer tis sold out Try whiskey or vodka, ten in the wood" I, "I'll try cider, I heard that 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 a pint of the Johnny Jump Up
lowering the third I headed straight for the yard Where I bumped into the big civic guard "Come here to me boy you know the law" Well I upped my fist and I shattered his jaw
He fell to the ground with his knees up For I hit him t'was the johnny jump And the next thing I met down in by the Sea Was a cripple on crutches, and he to me
"I'm afraid o' me life be hit by a car Would you help me across to the Bar" And after three pints of that cider so He threw down his crutches and he danced on his
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 After drinking a pint of the Jump Up
Now I went up the Lee a friend for to see They call it the in Cork by the Lee But when I got up there, the I do to tell had the poor bugger locked up in his cell
Says the testing him, "Say these words if you can the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran'" "Tell I'm not crazy, tell them 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 measurements did His wife him home to a bloody fine wake
'Twas about twelve o'clock and the beer it was The corpse he sat up and he says with a I get to heaven, they 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 fell to the and I couldn't get up After drinking a pint of the Johnny Up (2x)