Gaelic Storm - Johnny Jump Up / Morrison's Jig lyrics

I'll tell ye a story that happened to me
One day as I went out 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 to the barman, I says give me a stout
Says the barman
I'm sorry all the beer 'tis sold out
Try whiskey or vodka, ten years in the wood
Says I, I'll try cider
I've heard that it's good

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

After lowering the third I headed
Strait for the yard
Where I bumped into Brophy
The big civic guard
He says come here to me boy don't
You know we're in the law
Well I upped with my fist and
I shot to his jaw he fell to the ground with
His knees doubled up
But t'wasn't I hit him t'was the johnny jump
And the next thing I met down
In Youghal by the Sea
Was a cripple on crutches, and says he to me
I'm afraid o' me life I'll be hit by a car
Would you help me across
To the Railwayman's Bar
And after three pints of the cider so sweet
He threw down his crutches and
He danced on his feet

Now I went up the Lee road
A friend for to see
They call it the Madhouse in Cork by the Lee
But when I got up there
The truth I do to tell
They had the poor bugger locked
Up in his cell says the guard testing him
Say these words if you can
'Around the rugged rocks the
Ragged rascal ran' tell them I'm not crazy
Tell them I'm not mad
T'was only six pints of that cider I had

Now a man died in the Union
By the name of McNabb
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
Till I bring them a pint
Of the Johnny Jump Up