Johnny Jump Up

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I'll tell ye a story that happened 
to me
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One day as I went out to Youghal by 
the Sea
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The sun it was bright and the day 
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it was warm
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Says I, A quiet pint wouldn't do 
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me no harm

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I went to the barman, I says give me
 a stout
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Says the barman, I'm sorry all the 
beer is sold out
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Try whiskey or vodka, ten years in
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 the wood
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Says I, I'll try cider, I heard 
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that it's good

[Chorus]
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Oh never, oh never, oh never again
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If I live to a hundred or a hundred 
and ten
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I fell to the ground and I 
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couldn't get up
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After drinking a pint of the 
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Johnny Jump Up

[Verse 2]
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After lowering the third I headed 
straight for the yard
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Where I bumped into Brophy the big 
civic guard
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He says come here to me boy, don't 
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you know I'm the law
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Well I upped with my fist and I 
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shattered his jaw

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He fell to the ground with his knees
 crumpled up
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But it wasn't I hit him, t'was the 
johnny jump
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And the next thing I met down in 
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Youghal by the Sea
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Was a cripple on crutches, and 
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says he to me

     Em
I'm afraid o' me life I'll be hit by
 a car
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Would you help me across to the 
Railwayman's Bar
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And after three pints of the cider
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 so sweet
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He threw down his crutches and he 
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danced on his feet

[Chorus]
   Em
Oh never, oh never, oh never again
     D
If I live to a hundred or a hundred 
and ten
  Em                       G      
I fell to the ground and I 
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couldn't get up
      Em         D           Em  
After drinking a pint of the 
   D    Em
Johnny Jump Up

[Verse 3]
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Now I went up the Lee road a friend 
for to see
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They call it the Madhouse in Cork by
 the Lee
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But when I got up there, the truth
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 I do tell
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They had the poor bugger locked 
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up in his cell

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Says the guard testing him, say 
these words if you can
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'Around the rugged rocks the ragged 
rascal ran'
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Tell them I'm not crazy, tell them
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 I'm not mad
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T'was only six pints of that cider
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 I had

      Em
Now a man died in the Union by the 
name of Mcnabb
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They washed him and laid him outside
 on a slab
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And after the parlors measurements
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 did take
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His wife took him home to a bloody
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 fine wake

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'Twas about twelve o'clock and the 
beer it was high
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The corpse he sat up and he says 
with a sigh
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I can't get to heaven, they won't 
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let me up
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Till I bring them a pint of the 
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Johnny Jump Up

[Chorus]
   Em
Oh never, oh never, oh never again
     D
If I live to a hundred or a hundred 
and ten
  Em                       G      
I fell to the ground and I 
      D
couldn't get up
      Em         D           Em  
After drinking a pint of the 
   D    Em
Johnny Jump Up

   Em
Oh never, oh never, oh never again
     D
If I live to a hundred or a hundred 
and ten
  Em                       G      
I fell to the ground and I 
      D
couldn't get up
      Em         D           Em  
After drinking a pint of the 
   D    Em
Johnny Jump Up