Johnny Jump Up chords by Jimmy Crowley

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Intro 1

Verse 1
Em 
Bm 
I'll  (E minor) tell you a story  (B minor) 
Em 
 (E minor) that happened to me
A 
D 
 (A major) One day  (D major) as I went down
to y 'all by the sea
Bm 
Em 
 (B minor) The sun  (E minor) it was bright and
the day it was warm
G 
Em 
 (G major) So says  (E minor) I,
D 
Em 
a quiet pint wouldn't  (D major) do me  (E minor) no harm
I went in and I called for a bottle of stout
A 
D 
 (A major) Says the  (D major) barman, I'm sorry,
Bm 
I'll de -bear this all  (B minor) down
Em 
Try  (E minor) whisky or paddy, ten years in de ward
G 
Em 
 (G major) Says I,  (E minor) I'll try cider,
D 
Em 
I  (D major) heard  (E minor) it  was gone
Bm 
Em 
Oh  (B minor)  (E minor) never, oh never, oh never again
A 
D 
Em 
D 
 (A major) If I  (D major) lived  (E minor) to   (D major) a  hundred
Bm 
and a hundred and  (B minor) ten
Em 
But I  (E minor) fell to the ground and
G 
I couldn't get up (G major) 
Em 
After  (E minor) drinking a quart of it
itchy and itchy above
After lowering the chard
I made straight for the yard
A 
D 
 (A major) Where  (D major) I  bumped into Broughy,
Bm 
the big civic art.  (B minor) 
Em 
Come  (E minor) here to me,
G 
don't you know I'm the law?  (G major) 
Em 
Well, I  (E minor) upwished me fist
D 
Em 
and I  (D major) shattered his  (E minor) jaw.
He fell to the ground
with his knees dumbled up,
Bm 
D 
 (B minor) But it  (D major) wasn't I hit him,
Em 
Bm 
t 'was Johnny Jump  (E minor)  (B minor) -Up.
Em 
 (E minor) The next thing I met down in Yarl by the sea
G 
Em 
 (G major) Was a cripple  (E minor) on crutches
and says he to me
I'm afraid of the life I'll
be his by a chair
A 
D 
 (A major) Want to  (D major) help me across
Bm 
to the railwayman's  (B minor) bar
D 
Em 
 (D major) Af  (E minor) ter drinking a quart of
Bm 
this cider so  (B minor) sweet
Em 
He  (E minor) threw down his crutches
D 
Em 
and he  (D major) danced on  (E minor) his feet
I went up Dilley Road
to the friend for to see
A 
D 
 (A major) The  (D major) college, the madhouse,
in Cork by the lee
Bm 
Em 
But  (B minor)  (E minor) when I got up there
A 
the truth I do  (A major) tell
D 
Em 
They had  (D major)  (E minor) the poor son
D 
Em 
so tied  (D major) up in  (E minor) the cell
Said the guard testing him,
A 
said these words if you can (A major) 
D 
Around  (D major) the rugged rocks
Bm 
the ragged rascal ran.  (B minor) 
Em 
C 
Tell  (E minor) them I'm not  (C major) crazy,
Bm 
G 
tell  (B minor) them I'm not  (G major) mad,
Em 
It was  (E minor) only a slug of a bottle I had.
A man died in the Union
by the name of McNab,
A 
D 
 (A major) We  (D major) washed him and laid him
Em 
outside in  (E minor) the slab.
And after O 'Connor his
measurements did take
His wife took him home
to a bloody fine wake
T 'was about twelve o 'clock
and the beer it was high
D 
The  (D major) corpse he jumped up
Em 
and says he wishes  (E minor) I
I can't get to heaven,
they won't let me up
D 
Till I bring them a quarter of a digit (D major) 
Em 
of India bar.  (E minor) 