I'll tell you a story happened 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 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 whiskey or vodka, ten in the wood" Says I, "I'll try cider, I heard it's good"
Oh never, oh never, oh again I to a hundred or a hundred and ten I fell to the and I couldn't get up drinking a pint of the Johnny Jump Up
After lowering the I headed straight for the yard Where I bumped into Brophy the big civic "Come here to me boy you we're the law" Well I upped my fist and I shattered his jaw
He fell to the ground with his knees up For t'wasnt I hit him t'was the johnny And the next thing I met down in 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 help me across to the Bar" And after three pints of that cider so He threw down his and he danced on his feet
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 drinking a pint 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 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 rugged rocks the rascal ran'" "Tell them I'm not crazy, tell I'm not mad T'was only six of that cider I had"
Now a man died in the by the name of McNabb washed him and placed 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 with a sigh I can't get to heaven, won't let me up 'Til I bring them a pint of the Jump Up
Oh never, oh never, oh never If I live to a or a hundred and ten 'Cause I fell to the and I couldn't get up After drinking a pint of the Johnny Up (2x)