I'll tell you a story happened to me One day as I down to Youghal by the Sea The sun it was bright and the day it was I, "A quiet 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 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 live to a hundred or a and ten I fell to the ground and I get up After drinking a pint of the Jump Up
After lowering the third I straight for the yard Where I bumped into the big civic guard "Come here to me boy you know the law" I upped with my fist and I shattered his jaw
He fell to the ground his knees crumpled up For t'wasnt I hit him the johnny jump And the next thing I met down in 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 across to the Bar" And after three pints of that so sweet He threw down his crutches and he danced on his
Oh never, oh never, oh again I to a hundred or a hundred and ten Cause I fell to the and I couldn't get up drinking a pint of the Johnny Jump Up
Now I went up the Lee a friend for to see call it the Madhouse in Cork by the Lee But when I got up there, the truth I do to had the poor bugger locked up in his cell
Says the testing him, "Say these words if you can 'Around the rocks the ragged rascal ran'" "Tell them I'm not crazy, them I'm not mad T'was six pints 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 him home to a bloody fine wake
about twelve o'clock and the beer it was high The corpse he sat up and he with a sigh I get to heaven, they 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 to the ground and I couldn't get up After a pint of the Johnny Jump Up (2x)