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Johnny Jump Up Music Lyrics

Minstrels Of Mayhem

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I'll tell you a story that happened to me,
One day as I went down 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 in and I ordered 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."

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

After lowering the third, I headed straight for the yard,
Where I bumped into Brophy, the big civic guard,
"Come 'ere to me boy, don't ya know I'm the law?"
Well I upped with me fist and I shattered his jaw.
He fell to the ground with his knees doubled up,
It wasn't I hit him, 'twas Johnny Jump Up.
The next thing I met down in Youghal by the sea,
Was a cripple on crutches, and says he to me,
"I'm afraid of me life I'll be hit by a car,
Will you help me across to The Railwayman's Bar?"
But after drinkin' a quart of the cider so sweet,
he threw down his crutches and danced on his feet.

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I went up to the Lee Road a friend for to see,
They call it the Madhouse in Cork by the Lee,
But when I got there, sure the truth I do tell,
They had the poor bugger locked up in his cell.
Said the guard testing him, "Say these words if you can,
"Around the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran",
"Tell them I'm not crazy, tell them I'm not mad,
It was only a sup of the bottle I had".

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A man died in the Union by the name of McNabb,
They washed him and laid him outside on a slab,
And after the coroner 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 sits up and he says with a sigh,
"I can't get to heaven, they won't let me up,
'Till I bring them a quart of the Johnny Jump-Up."

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