“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” ― George Bernard Shaw
Johnny Jump Up 1 I’ll [Am]tell you a story that happened to me One [G]day as I went down to Youghal by the sea The [Am]sun it was high and the day it was warm Says I a quiet [Em]pint wouldn't [Am]do me no harm I went [Am]in and I ordered a bottle of stout Says the [G]barman I'm sorry, all the beer is run out Try [Am]whiskey or Paddy ten years in the wood Says I I'll try [Em]cider I've [Am]heard that it's good O [Am]never, O never, O never again If I [G]live to be a hundred or a hundred and ten For I [Am]fell to the ground and I couldn't get up After drinking a [Em]pint of the [Am]Johnny Jump Up After [Am]drinkin' a quart I went straight to the yard Where I [G]ran into Brophy the big Civic Guard Come [Am]here to me Boy don't you know I'm the law So I upped with me [Em]fist and I [Am]shattered his jaw He [Am]fell to the ground and he couldn't get up But it [G]wasn't I hit him t’was Johnny Jump Up The [Am]next thing I met down in Youghal by the sea Was a cripple on [Em]crutches and [Am]says he to me I'm [Am]afraid of me life I'll be hit by a car Would you [G]help me cross over to the Railwayman's Bar? After [Am]drinkin’ a pint of that cider so sweet He threw down his [Em]crutches, danced [Am]round on his feet I [Am]went down the Lee road a friend to see Sure they [G]call it the Madhouse in Cork by the Lee But [Am]when I got up there, the truth to you I’ll tell They had the poor [Em]bugger locked [Am]up in a cell 134 | P a g e
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