Bedlam Bards - Johnny Jump UP lyrics

Let me tell you a story that happened to me One day as I went down to Youghal by the sea The day it was hot, the sun it was warm Says I "A quick pint wouldn't do any harm" Well I went in and I asked for a bottle of stout Says the barman to me, "All the beer's all sold out Try whiskey, try Paddy, ten years in the wood" Says I, "I'll try cider; I've heard that it's good." Chorus Oh never, oh never, oh never again If I live to be a hundred or a hundred and ten Well I fell to the ground and I couldn't get up After drinking a quart of that Johnny-Jump-Up After leavin' the third I went back to the yard Where I bumped into Brophy the big civic guard; "Come 'ere to me lad don't you 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'd hit him, t'was the Johnny Jump-Up The next thing that I saw down at Youghal by the Sea Was a cripple on crutches and he said to me "I'm afeard for me life I'll be hit by a cart Won't you help me on over to the longshoremen's bar?" After drinkin' a quart of that cider so sweet He threw down his crutches and he danced in the street Chorus Well I went down to Bedlam a friend for to see They call it the Madhouse near Cork by the Sea But when I got there sure the truth I do tell They had the poor bugger locked up in a cell Now the jailor he said, "Say these word if you can: 'Around the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran." "Tell them I'm not crazy, tell them I'm not mad 'Twas only a sup of the bottle I had Chorus A man died in the Union by the name of M'Crack They washed him, they laid him outside on his back And after O'Connor his measurements did take His wife took him home for a bloody fine wake About twelve o'clock and the beer it was high When the corpse he sits up and says he with a sigh "I can't get to heaven, they won't let me up 'Till I bring them a quart of Johnny Jump-Up Chorus