I'll tell you a story that 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 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 whiskey or vodka, ten in the wood" Says I, "I'll try cider, I heard that good"
Oh never, oh never, oh again I live to a 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 guard "Come to me boy you know we're the law" I upped with 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 I met down in Youghal by the Sea Was a on crutches, and says he to me
"I'm afraid o' me life be hit by a car you help me across to the Railwayman's Bar" And after pints of that cider so sweet He threw down his crutches and he on his feet
Oh never, oh never, oh never I to a hundred or a hundred and ten Cause I fell to the ground and I get up drinking a pint of the Johnny Jump Up
Now I went up the Lee a friend for to see They call it the Madhouse in by the Lee But when I got up there, the truth I do to They had the poor bugger locked up in his
the guard testing him, "Say these words if you can 'Around the rugged rocks the ragged ran'" "Tell I'm not crazy, tell them I'm not mad only six pints of that cider I had"
Now a man died in the Union by the of McNabb washed him and placed him outside on a slab And after the coroner his did take His wife took him home to a fine wake
'Twas about twelve o'clock and the beer it was The corpse he sat up and he with a sigh I get to heaven, they won't let me up 'Til I bring them a pint of the Johnny 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 drinking a pint of the Johnny Jump Up (2x)