Johnny Jump Up

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

Said the [Am]Guard testing him say these words if you can ‘A[G]round the rugged rocks, the ragged rascal ran’ Tell [Am]them I'm not crazy, tell them I'm not mad ‘Twas only a [Em]sup of the [Am]bottle I had.

A [Am]man died in the union by the name of McNab They [G]washed him and laid him right out on the slab And [Am]after O’Connor his measurements did take His wife took him [Em]home to a [Am]bloody fine wake

At [Am]about twelve o'clock and the beer it was high The [G]corpse he sat up and says he with a sigh I [Am]can't get into heaven for they won't let me up ‘Til I bring them a [Em]quart of the [Am]Johnny Jump Up

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]quart of the [Am]Johnny Jump Up

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