I'll you a story that happened to me One day as I went 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 all the beer 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 to a hundred or a hundred and ten I to the ground and I couldn't get up drinking a pint of the Johnny Jump Up
After lowering the third I straight for the yard I bumped into 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 crumpled up For t'wasnt I hit him the johnny jump And the next I met down in Youghal by the Sea Was a cripple on crutches, and he to me
"I'm afraid o' me life be hit by a car Would you me across to the Railwayman's Bar" And after pints of that cider so sweet 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 I fell to the ground and I couldn't get up After a pint of the Johnny Jump Up
Now I went up the Lee a friend for to see They call it the in Cork by the Lee But I got up there, the truth I do to tell They had the poor bugger up in his cell
Says the guard him, "Say these words if you can 'Around the rugged rocks the ragged ran'" "Tell them I'm not crazy, tell I'm not mad T'was only six pints of that I had"
Now a man died in the Union by the of McNabb They him and placed him outside on a slab And after the coroner his did take His wife took him home to a bloody fine
'Twas twelve o'clock and the beer it was high The he sat up and he says 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 or a hundred and ten 'Cause I to the ground and I couldn't get up After drinking a pint of the Johnny Up (2x)