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 I, "A quiet 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 or vodka, ten years in the wood" Says I, "I'll try cider, I heard that good"
Oh never, oh never, oh again I to a hundred or a hundred and ten I fell to the and I couldn't get up After a pint of the Johnny Jump Up
After the third 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 with my and I shattered his jaw
He fell to the with his knees crumpled up For t'wasnt I hit him t'was the jump And the next thing I met in Youghal by the Sea Was a on crutches, and says he to me
"I'm afraid o' me I'll be hit by a car Would you me across to the Railwayman's Bar" And after three of that cider so sweet He threw down his crutches and he on his feet
Oh never, oh never, oh never I to a hundred or a hundred and ten Cause I fell to the ground and I get up After drinking a of the Johnny Jump Up
Now I went up the Lee Road a for to see call it the Madhouse in Cork by the Lee But I got up there, the truth I do to tell They had the poor locked up in his cell
Says the guard testing him, "Say words if you can the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran'" "Tell I'm not crazy, tell them 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 washed him and placed him outside on a And after the his measurements did take His wife took him to a bloody fine wake
'Twas twelve o'clock and the beer it was high The corpse he sat up and he with 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 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)