Johnny Jump-up/morrison Jig Lyrics - Gaelic Storm

I'll tell ye a story that happened to me 

One day as I went out 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 to the barman, I says give me a stout 

Says the barman, I'm sorry all the beer tis sold out 

Try whiskey or vodka, ten years in the wood 

Says I, I'll try cider, I heard it was good 

chorus: 

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 pint of the Johnny Jump Up 

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After lowering the third I headed strait for the yard 

Where I bumped into Brophy the big civic guard 

He says come here to me boy don't you know we're in the law 

Well i upped with my fist and i shot to his jaw 

He fell to the ground with his knees crumpled up 

But it T'wasnt I hit him t'was the johnny jump 

And the next thing I met down in Youghal by the Sea 

Was a cripple on crutches, and says he to me 

I'm afraid o' me life I'll be hit by a car 

Would you help me across to the Railwayman's Bar 

And after three pints of the cider so sweet 

He threw down his crutches and he danced on his feet 

chorus 

Now I went up the Lee road a friend to see 

They call it the Madhouse in Cork by the Lee 

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

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 

'Around the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran' 

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

T'was only six pints of that cider I had 

Now a man died in the Union by the name of McNabb 

They washed him and laid him outside on a slab 

And after the corroner his measurements did take 

His wife took him home to a bloody fine wake 

'Twas about twelve o'clock and the beer it was high 

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 pint of the Johnny Jump Up 

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