I'll tell you a that happened to me One day as I went to Youghal by the Sea The sun it was and the day it was warm 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 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 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 I headed straight for the yard Where I into Brophy the big civic guard "Come here to me boy you know the law" Well I upped my fist and I shattered his jaw
He fell to the ground with his knees up For I hit him t'was 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 three pints of that cider so sweet He threw down his crutches and he danced on his
Oh never, oh never, oh again 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 Jump Up
Now I up the Lee Road a friend for to see They it the Madhouse in Cork by the Lee But I got up there, the truth I do to tell They had the bugger locked up in his cell
Says the testing him, "Say these words if you can 'Around the rocks the ragged rascal ran'" "Tell I'm not crazy, tell them I'm not mad T'was six pints of that cider I had"
Now a man died in the Union by the of McNabb They washed him and placed him outside on a And after the his measurements did take His took him home to a bloody fine wake
'Twas about twelve o'clock and the it was high The he sat up and he says with a sigh I can't get to heaven, they let me up 'Til I bring them a pint of the Johnny 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 a pint of the Johnny Jump Up (2x)