Johnny Jump Up Songtext
von The Langer’s Ball

I′ll tell you a story that happened to me
One day as I went down to Yore by the sea
Oh, the day it was bright
The sun it was warm
Says I "A quiet pint wouldn't do me no harm"

I went in and called for a bottle of stout
"Well I′m sorry," said the barkeep "all the beer's sold out.
Try whiskey or paddy, ten years in the woods"
Says I, "I'll try cider; I′ve heard that that′s good."

Well I'll never, never, never again
If I live to see a hundred or a hundred and ten
I fell to the ground
I couldn′t get up
After drinking the quart of that Johnny-Jump-Up

After downin' the third I went into the yard
Where I bumped into Brophy the big civic guard;
"Come ′ere 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 that hit him, 'twas the Johnny Jump-Up
The next thing I met down in Yore by the Sea
Was a cripple on crutches and said he to me

"I′m afraid for me life I′ll be hit by a car
Could you help me across to the railwayman's bar?"
And after a pint of the cider so sweet
He threw down his crutches and danced on the street

Well I′ll never, never, never again
If I live to see a hundred or a hundred and ten
I fell to the ground
I couldn't get up
After drinking the quart of that Johnny-Jump-Up

I went up to the Lee road a friend for to see
They call it the Madhouse down in Cork by the Lee
And when I got there, oh, the truth I do tell
They had that poor bugger locked up in a cell

The guard, testing him, "say these words if you can:
′Around the rugged rocks, oh, the ragged rascal ran."
"Tell them I'm not crazy, tell them I′m not mad
It was only a sup of the cider I had


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

A man died in the Union by the name of McNabb
They washed him, they laid him outside on a slab
And after his measurements, the coroner did take
His wife brought him home to a bloody fine wake
It was about twelve o′clock when the beer, it was high
The corpse he stood up and he said with a sigh
"I can′t get to heaven, oh, they won't let me up
Until I bring them a quart of that Johnny Jump-Up

Well I′ll never, never, never again
If I live to see a hundred or a hundred and ten
I fell to the ground
I couldn't get up
After drinking the quart of that Johnny-Jump-Up