Johnny Jump Up 
words and music Traditional
I'll tell you a story that happened to me
One day as I went down to Yore 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 whiskey
or paddy, ten years in the wood
Says I, I'll try cider, I've heard that it's
good.
Oh never, Oh never, oh never again
if I live to a hundred or a hundred and ten
I fell to the ground and I couldn't get up
After drinking a quart of that Johnny Jump Up.
After downing the third I went out in the yard
Where I bumped into Brody,
the big civic guard
Come here to me boy, don't you know I'm the law?
Well, I up with me fist and I shattered his jaw.
He fell to the ground with his knees doubled up
But it wasn't I nit him, 'twas Johnny Jump Up
And the next thing I met down in Yore by the sea
Was a cripple on crutches and says he to me,
"I'm afraid for me life I'll be hit by a
car
Won't you help me on down to the Railwayman's Bar?'
After downing a pint of that cider so sweet
He threw down his crutches and danced on his feet.
I went up the lee road, a friend for to see
They call it the madhouse in Cork by the lee
And when I got there, sure the truth I will tell,
They had the poor bugger locked up in a cell.
Said the guard, testing him, say these words if you can,
Around the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran
Tell him I'm not crazy, tell him I'm not mad
It was only a sip of that bottle I had.
Well, a man died in the mines by the name of McNabb
They washed him and laid him outside on the slab
And after the coroners measurements did take
His wife took him home to a bloody fine wake.
Twas about 12 o'clock and the beer it was high
And the corpse he sits up and says with a sigh
I can't get to heaven, they won't let me up
Til I bring them a quart of that Johnny Jump Up.