Johnny Jump Up

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I'll tell ye a story that happened to me
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One day as I went out to Youghal by the Sea
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The sun it was bright and the day it was warm
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Says I, A quiet pint wouldn't do me no harm

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I went to the barman, I says give me a stout
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Says the barman, I'm sorry all the beer is sold out
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Try whiskey or vodka, ten years in the wood
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Says I, I'll try cider, I heard that it's good

[Chorus]

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Oh never, oh never, oh never again
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If I live to a hundred or a hundred and ten
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I fell to the ground and I couldn't get up
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After drinking a pint of the Johnny Jump Up

[Verse 2]

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After lowering the third I headed straight for the yard
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Where I bumped into Brophy the big civic guard
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He says come here to me boy, don't you know I'm the law
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Well I upped with my fist and I shattered his jaw

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He fell to the ground with his knees crumpled up
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But it wasn't I hit him, t'was the johnny jump
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And the next thing I met down in Youghal by the Sea
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Was a cripple on crutches, and says he to me

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I'm afraid o' me life I'll be hit by a car
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Would you help me across to the Railwayman's Bar
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And after three pints of the cider so sweet
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He threw down his crutches and he danced on his feet

[Chorus]

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Oh never, oh never, oh never again
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If I live to a hundred or a hundred and ten
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I fell to the ground and I couldn't get up
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After drinking a pint of the Johnny Jump Up

[Verse 3]

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Now I went up the Lee road a friend for to see
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They call it the Madhouse in Cork by the Lee
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But when I got up there, the truth I do tell
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They had the poor bugger locked up in his cell

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Says the guard testing him, say these words if you can
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'Around the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran'
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Tell them I'm not crazy, tell them I'm not mad

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T'was only six pints of that cider I had

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Now a man died in the Union by the name of Mcnabb
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They washed him and laid him outside on a slab
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And after the parlors measurements did take
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His wife took him home to a bloody fine wake

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'Twas about twelve o'clock and the beer it was high
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The corpse he sat up and he says with a sigh
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I can't get to heaven, they won't let me up
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Till I bring them a pint of the Johnny Jump Up

[Chorus]

   Em
Oh never, oh never, oh never again
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If I live to a hundred or a hundred and ten
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I fell to the ground and I couldn't get up
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After drinking a pint of the Johnny Jump Up

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Oh never, oh never, oh never again
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If I live to a hundred or a hundred and ten
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I fell to the ground and I couldn't get up
      Em         D           Em     D    Em
After drinking a pint of the Johnny Jump Up

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