I'll tell you a story 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 whiskey or vodka, ten in the wood" Says I, "I'll try cider, I 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 After a pint of the Johnny Jump Up
After lowering the third I 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 with my fist and I his jaw
He fell to the ground his knees crumpled up For t'wasnt I hit him t'was the jump And the next thing I met down in by the Sea Was a on crutches, and says 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 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 drinking a pint 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 I do to tell had the poor bugger locked up in his cell
Says the testing 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 six pints of that cider I had"
Now a man died in the Union by the of McNabb They washed him and placed him on a slab And after the coroner his measurements did His wife him home to a bloody fine wake
about twelve o'clock and the beer it was high The corpse he sat up and he with a sigh I get to heaven, they won't let me up 'Til I bring 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 fell to the and I couldn't get up After drinking a pint of the Jump Up (2x)