I'll tell you a story that 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 pint wouldn't do me no harm"
I to the barman, I says, "Give me a stout" the barman, "I'm sorry all the tis sold out Try or vodka, ten years in the wood" I, "I'll try cider, I heard that 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 After drinking a pint of the Johnny Up
After lowering the third I straight for the yard I bumped into Brophy the big civic guard "Come to me boy you know we're the law" Well I upped with my 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 thing I met down in Youghal by the Sea Was a on crutches, and says he to me
"I'm afraid o' me life be hit by a car Would you me across to the Railwayman's Bar" And after three pints of that cider so He threw his crutches and he danced on his feet
Oh never, oh never, oh never I live to a hundred or a and ten I fell to the ground and I couldn't get up After drinking a pint of the Jump Up
Now I went up the Lee Road a for to see call it the Madhouse in Cork by the Lee But I got up there, the truth I do to tell had the poor bugger locked up in his cell
Says the guard testing him, "Say these 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 of that cider I had"
Now a man died in the Union by the of McNabb They washed him and him outside on a slab And after the coroner his did take His wife took him home to a bloody fine
'Twas about o'clock and the beer it was high The he sat up and he says with a sigh I can't get to heaven, they let me up 'Til I them a pint of the Johnny Jump Up
Oh never, oh never, oh again If I live to a or a hundred and ten 'Cause I to the ground and I couldn't get up After drinking a of the Johnny Jump Up (2x)