Key: E minor•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I'll tell you a story that happened to me
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The sun it was bright and the day it was warm
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Says I, A quiet pint wouldn't do me no harm
I went in to the barman, I says give me a stout
I'm sorry all the beer tis sold out
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Try whiskey or vodka, ten years in the wood
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Says I, I'll try cider, I heard that it's good
Chorus 1
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I fell to the ground and I couldn't get up
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After drinking a pint
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Verse 2
strait for the yard
the big civic guard
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don't you know we're in the law
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Well I upped with my fist
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and I shot to his jaw
He fell to the ground
with his knees doubled up
t'was the Johnny Jump Up
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in Youghal by the Sea
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was a cripple on crutches,
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and says he to me
I'm afraid o' me life I'll be hit by a car
to the Railwayman's Bar
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And after three pints of the cider so sweet
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He threw down his crutches
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and he danced on his feet
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and I couldn't get up
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After drinking a pint
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of the Johnny Jump Up
Solo 1
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Verse 3
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Now I went up the Lee road a friend for to see
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They call it the Madhouse in Cork by the Lee
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When I got up there, the truth I do tell
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They had the poor bugger
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locked up in his cell
Says the guard testing him,
say these words if you can
the ragged rascal ran'
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Tell them I'm not crazy, tell them I'm not mad
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T'was only six pints of that cider I had
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by the name of McNabb
outside on a slab
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his measurements did take
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His wife took him home
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to a bloody fine wake
'Twas about twelve o'clock
and the beer it was high
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The corpse he sat up and he says with a sigh
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I can't get to heaven, they won't let me up
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Till I bring them a pint
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of the Johnny Jump Up
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and I couldn't get up
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After drinking a pint
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and I couldn't get up
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After drinking a pint
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of the Johnny Jump Up
Outro 1
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