I'll tell you a story that to me One day as I down to Youghal 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 sorry all the tis sold out Try or vodka, ten years 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 After drinking a pint of the Jump Up
After lowering the I headed straight for the yard I bumped into Brophy the big civic guard "Come to me boy you know we're the law" Well I upped 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 jump And the next thing I met down in by the Sea Was a cripple on crutches, and he to me
"I'm afraid o' me life be hit by a car Would you help me across to the Bar" And after three pints of cider so sweet He threw down his crutches and he on his feet
Oh never, oh never, oh again I to a hundred or a hundred and ten I fell 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 call it the in Cork by the Lee But when I got up there, the truth I do to They had the poor locked up in his cell
Says the guard testing him, "Say these if you can 'Around the rugged rocks the rascal ran'" "Tell I'm not crazy, tell them I'm not mad only six pints of that cider I had"
Now a man in the Union by the name of McNabb They washed him and placed him outside on a And the coroner his measurements did take His wife him home to a bloody fine wake
'Twas about twelve and the beer it was high The corpse he sat up and he says with a I can't get to heaven, they let me up 'Til I bring them a of the Johnny Jump Up
Oh never, oh never, oh again If I live to a or a hundred and ten 'Cause I fell to the and I couldn't get up After drinking a of the Johnny Jump Up (2x)