Greenfields Együttes - Johnny Jump-Up dalszöveg (lyrics)

Well, I'll tell you a story
That happened to me
One day as I went out 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"

I went in and called for a bottle of stout
Says the barman
"I'm sorry the beer's all sold out
Try whiskey, young Paddy
Ten years in the wood" says I
"I'll have cider I've heard that it's good"

But, I'll never, oh never, oh never again
If I live to a hundred or a hundred and ten
Well I fell to the ground
And I couldn't get up
After drinking the quart
Of the Johnny-Jump-Up

After leavin' the third I came
Out by the yard where I walked into Brophy
The big civic guard
"Come 'ere to me boy don't
You know I'm the law?"
I upped with me fist and I shattered his jaw

Well he fell to the ground
With his knees doubled up
'Twas not I that hit him, but Johnny Jump-Up
The next thing that I met down
By Youghal by the Sea
Was a cripple on crutches and he said to me

"I'm afraid for me life I'll be hit by a car
Won't you help me across
To the railwayman's bar?"
But after drinkin' a quart of
The cider so sweet
He threw down his crutches and
Danced in the street

Well I went down the Lee road
A friend for to see
They call it the Madhouse in Cork by the Sea
But when I got there sure
The truth I will tell
They had the poor bugger locked up in a cell

Said the guard, testing him
"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 the sup of the bottle I had

A man died in the Union by the name of McNabb
They washed him
They laid him outside on a slab
And after O'Connor his measurements did take
His wife took him home for a bloody fine wake

Well, about twelve o'clock and the
Beer it was high the corpse he sit's 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