I'll tell you a story that to me One day as I down to Youghal 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" I, "I'll try cider, I heard that it's 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 After a pint of the Johnny Jump Up
After lowering the I headed straight for the yard Where I bumped Brophy the big civic guard "Come here to me boy you we're the law" Well I upped with my 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 cripple on crutches, and he to me
"I'm o' me life I'll be hit by a car Would you me across to the Railwayman's Bar" And after three pints of cider so sweet He threw his crutches and he danced on his feet
Oh never, oh never, oh again I to a hundred or a hundred and ten Cause I to the ground and I couldn't get up After drinking a of the Johnny Jump Up
Now I up the Lee Road a friend 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 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 name of They him and placed him outside on a slab And after the coroner his did take His wife took him home to a bloody wake
'Twas about twelve o'clock and the it was high The corpse he sat up and he says 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)