Gaelic Storm – Johnny Jump Up/morrison's Jig lyrics

I'll tell you a story that happened to me,
One day as I went down to Yar 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 to the barman; I said, "Give me a stout."
Says the barman, "I'm sorry, all the beer 'twas sold out;
Try whiskey or vodka, 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;
I fell to the ground and I couldn't get up,
After drinking a pint of that Johnny Jump Up!

After lowerin' the third I headed straight for the yard,
Where I bumped into Brophy, the big civic guard;
"Come here to me, boy, don't you know I'm the law?"
Well, 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, 'twas the Johnny Jump Up;
And the next thing I met down in Yar 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;
Won't you help me across to the Railwayman's Bar?"
And after three pints of that cider so sweet,
He threw down his crutches and he danced on his feet.

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Now, I went up the lee road, a friend for to see;
They call it the madhouse in Court by the Lee;
But when I got up there, the truth I do tell,
They had the poor bugger locked up in a cell.

Says the guard, testing him, "Say these words if you can:
Around the ragged rock the ragged rascal ran."
"Tell them I'm not crazy, tell them I'm not mad;
'Twas only six pints of that cider I had!"

Now, a man died in the union by the name of MacNabb;
They washed him and placed 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 sat up and he says with a sigh:
"I can't get to heaven, they won't let me up
Til I bring them a pint of that Johnny Jump Up!"

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