Van Langen - Johnny Jump Up lyrics

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 called for a bottle of Stout Says the barman?I´m sorry all the beer is sold out, Try whisky or Paddy ten years in the wood? Says I "I´ll try the cider, I hear that it´s good". Oh never oh never oh never again If I live to a hundred or a hundred and ten! I fell to the floor and I couldn´t get up After drinking a quart of the Johnny Jump Up. After leaving the third I went to the yard Where I bumped into Brophy the big civic guard. "Come here to me boy, don´t you know I´m the law?" I upped with my fist and I shattered his jaw. He fell to the ground with his knees doubled up But it wasn´t I hit him, it was Johnny Jump Up. The next thing I met down in Youghal by the sea Was a cripple on cruches and he says to me: "I´m afraid of my life, I´ll be hit by a horse, Won´t you help me across to the Railway Man´s bar?" After drinking a quart of the cider so sweet He threw down his crutches and he danced in the street. Oh never oh never oh never again If I live to a hundred or a hundred and ten! I fell to the floor and I couldn´t get up After drinking a quart of the Johnny Jump Up. I went to the Lee Road friends for to see, They call it the madhouse in Cork by the Lee. But when I got up there the truth I do tell, They had the poor beggar locked up in a 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 drop of the cider I had. Oh never oh never oh never again If I live to a hundred or a hundred and ten! I fell to the floor and I couldn´t get up After drinking a quart of the Johnny Jump Up. A man died in the Union by the name of Mac Nabb. They washed him and laid him outside on a slab 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 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 quart of the Johnny Jump Up " Oh never oh never oh never again If I live to a hundred or a hundred and ten! I fell to the floor and I couldn´t get up After drinking a quart of the Johnny Jump Up.