I'll you a story that happened to me One day as I went down to by the Sea The sun it was bright and the day it was 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 again I live to a or a hundred and ten I to the ground and I couldn't get up After a pint of the Johnny Jump Up
After lowering the I headed straight for the yard Where I bumped into the big civic guard "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 crumpled 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 o' me life I'll be hit by a car you help me across to the Railwayman's Bar" And after three pints of that cider so He threw down his and he danced on his feet
Oh never, oh never, oh again I live to a hundred or a and ten Cause I fell to the and I couldn't get up After a pint of the Johnny Jump Up
Now I up the Lee Road a friend for to see They call it the Madhouse in by the Lee But I got up there, the truth I do to tell They had the poor bugger locked up in his
Says the testing him, "Say these words if you can 'Around the rocks the ragged rascal ran'" "Tell them I'm not crazy, them I'm not mad T'was only six of that cider I had"
Now a man died in the Union by the name of They washed him and placed him on a slab And after the coroner his did take His wife took him home to a bloody fine
'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, won't let me up I bring them a pint of the Johnny Jump Up
Oh never, oh never, oh never If 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 (2x)