I'll tell you a story that to me One day as I went to Youghal by the Sea The sun it was and the day it was warm 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 beer tis out Try or vodka, ten years in the wood" Says I, "I'll try cider, I that it's good"
Oh never, oh never, oh never I live to a or a hundred and ten I fell to the ground and I get up After drinking a pint of the Jump Up
lowering the third I headed straight for the yard Where I bumped into 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 to the ground with 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 afraid o' me life be hit by a car Would you me across to the Railwayman's Bar" And after three of that cider so sweet 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 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 Road a for to see They call it the 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 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 pints of that I had"
Now a man died in the by the name of McNabb washed him and placed him outside on a slab And the coroner his measurements did take His wife took him home to a bloody fine
about twelve o'clock and the beer it was high The he sat up and he says with a sigh 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 live to a or a hundred and ten 'Cause I fell to the ground and I get up After drinking a pint of the Johnny Up (2x)