Johnny jump up

I´ll tell you a story that happened to me

One day as I went down to Youghal by the sea,

The sun it was bright and the day it was warm

Says I „a quiet pint wouldn´t do me no harm.

I went in and I called for a bottle of Stout

Says the barman „I´m sorry all the beer is sold out,

Try whisky or Paddy ten years in the wood"

Says I „I´ll try the cider, I hear that it´s good".

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If I live to a hundred or a hundred and ten!

I fell to the floor and I couldn´t get up

After drinking a quart of the Johnny Jump Up.

After leaving the third I went to the yard

Where I bumped into Brophy the big civic guard.

„Come here to me boy, don´t you know I´m the law?"

I upped with my fist and I shattered his jaw.

He fell to the ground with his knees doubled up

But it wasn´t I hit him, it was Johnny Jump Up.

The next thing I met down in Youghal by the sea

Was a cripple on cruches and he says to me:

„I´m afraid of my life, I´ll be hit by a horse,

Won´t you help me across to the Railway Man´s bar?"

After drinking a quart of the cider so sweet

He threw down his crutches and he danced in the street.

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I went to the Lee Road friends for to see,

They call it the madhouse in Cork by the Lee.

But when I got up there the truth I do tell,

They had the poor beggar locked up in a cell.

Said the guard testing him „say these words if you can -

Around the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran".

Tell them I´m not crazy, tell them I´m not mad,

It was only a drop of the cider I had.

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A man died in the Union by the name of Mac Nabb.

They washed him and laid him outside on a slab

And after O`Connor his measurements did take,

His wife took him home for a bloody fine wake.

About twelve o´clock and the beer it was high,

When the corpse he sat up and he says with a sigh:

„I can´t get to heaven, they won´t let me up

`Till I bring them a quart of the Johnny Jump Up

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