I'll tell you a 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 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 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 fell to the and I couldn't get up After drinking a pint of the 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" Well I 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 johnny And the next I met down in Youghal by the Sea Was a on crutches, and says he to me
"I'm afraid o' me I'll be hit by a car you help me across to the Railwayman's Bar" And after three pints of cider so sweet He threw down his crutches and he danced on his
Oh never, oh never, oh never 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
Now I up the Lee Road a friend for to see They it the Madhouse in Cork by the Lee But when I got up there, the I do to tell They had the 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 only six of that cider I had"
Now a man died in the by the name of McNabb They washed him and him outside on a slab And after the coroner his did take His took him home to a bloody fine wake
'Twas about 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 I bring them a pint of the Johnny Jump Up
Oh never, oh never, oh again If I to a hundred or a hundred and ten 'Cause I to the ground and I couldn't get up After drinking a pint of the Johnny Up (2x)