I'll tell you a story happened to me One day as I went down to by the Sea The sun it was and the day it was warm Says I, "A pint wouldn't 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" Says I, "I'll try cider, I heard that 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 drinking a pint of the Johnny Jump Up
After lowering the third I headed for the yard I bumped into Brophy the big civic guard "Come here to me boy you know the law" Well I upped with my and I shattered his jaw
He fell to the ground with his crumpled up For t'wasnt I hit him the johnny jump And the next thing I met in Youghal 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 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 to a hundred 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 went up the Lee Road a for to see They it the Madhouse in Cork by the Lee But when I got up there, the truth I do to They had the poor bugger locked up in his
Says the guard testing him, "Say these if you can 'Around the rugged 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 in the Union by the name of McNabb They washed him and placed him on a slab And after the coroner his did take His wife took him home to a bloody fine
'Twas about twelve 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 bring them a pint of the Jump Up
Oh never, oh never, oh again If I to a hundred or a hundred and ten I fell to the ground and I couldn't get up After a pint of the Johnny Jump Up (2x)