I'll tell you a that happened to me One day as I down to Youghal by the Sea The sun it was bright and the day it was I, "A quiet 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" I, "I'll try cider, I heard that it's good"
Oh never, oh never, oh never I live to a or a hundred 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 Where I bumped into Brophy the big guard "Come to me boy you know we're the law" Well I upped with my fist and I his jaw
He fell to the with his knees crumpled up For t'wasnt I hit him the johnny jump And the thing I met down 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 help me to the Railwayman's Bar" And after three pints of that so sweet He down his crutches and he danced on his feet
Oh never, oh never, oh again I live to a or a hundred and ten Cause I fell to the ground and I get up After drinking a of the Johnny Jump Up
Now I went up the Lee a friend 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 locked up in his cell
Says the guard him, "Say these words if you can 'Around the rocks the ragged rascal ran'" "Tell them I'm not crazy, tell 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 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 I bring them a pint of the Johnny Jump Up
Oh never, oh never, oh again If I live to a hundred or a and ten 'Cause I to the ground and I couldn't get up After drinking a of the Johnny Jump Up (2x)