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 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 whiskey or vodka, ten in the wood" Says I, "I'll try cider, I heard it's good"
Oh never, oh never, oh never I live to a or a hundred and ten I to the ground and I couldn't get up drinking a pint of the Johnny Jump Up
After lowering the third I headed for the yard Where I bumped Brophy the big civic guard "Come here to me boy you know the law" Well I with my fist and I shattered his jaw
He fell to the ground with his crumpled up For t'wasnt I hit him t'was the johnny And the next thing I met in Youghal by the Sea Was a cripple on crutches, and he to me
"I'm afraid o' me 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 never I live to a hundred or a and ten Cause I fell to the 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 call it the Madhouse in by the Lee But when I got up there, the I do to tell They had the poor locked up in his cell
Says the guard testing him, "Say words if you can 'Around the rugged rocks the ragged ran'" "Tell I'm not crazy, tell them I'm not mad T'was only six pints of cider I had"
Now a man in the Union by the name of McNabb They washed him and placed him on a slab And the coroner his measurements did take His wife took him home to a bloody fine
'Twas about o'clock and the beer it was high The corpse he sat up and he says 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 hundred or a and ten 'Cause I to the ground and I couldn't get up After drinking a pint of the Jump Up (2x)