Johnny Jump Up

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T:Johnny Jump Up
C:Traditional
S:Wylde Nept
Z:ABC by Thornton Rose, Jan. 2002
M:3/4
L:1/4
K:G
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w:1.~I'll tell you a stor-y that hap-pened to me.
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w:One day as I went down to Youghal by the sea.
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w:The sun it was bright, and the day it was warm.
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w:Says I, "A wee pint would-n't do me no harm".
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w:Ch.~Oh, nev-er, oh, nev-er, oh, nev-er a-gain,
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w:If I live to be a hun-dred or a hun-dred and ten.
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w:I fell to the ground, and I could-n't get up,
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w:Af-ter drink-ing a quart of that John-ny Jump Up.
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W:2. I went in and asked for a bottle of stout.
W:Says the bar man to me,  "All the  beer is sold out.
W:Try whiskey, try Paddy, ten  years in the  wood."
W:Says I, "I'll try  cider. I've heard that it's good."
W:(Chorus)
W:
W:3. After leavin' the third I went back to the yard,
W:Where I bumped into Brophy, the big civic guard.
W:"Come here to me boy. Don't you know I'm the law?"
W:I upped with me fist, and I shattered his jaw.
W:
W:4. He fell to the ground with his knees doubled up,
W:But it wasn't that I'd hit him. He'd had Johnny Jump-Up.
W:And the next thing that I met down by Youghal by the sea
W:Was an old man on crutches and he said to me,
W:
W:5. "I fear for me life I'll be hit by a car.
W:Won't you help me across to the Railway Man's bar?"
W:After drinkin' a sip of that cider so sweet,
W:He threw down his crutches and danced in the street.
W:(Chorus)
W:
W:6. I went down the Lee road a friend for to see,
W:To a place called the Madhouse in Cork of the Lee,
W:But when I got there, the truth I should tell,
W:They had the poor bugger locked up in a cell.

Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/mindspring.com/~thornton.rose/Johnny_Jump_Up/0000
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/troseandassociates.com/abc/JohnnyJumpUp/0000
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/troseandassociates.com/abc/Johnny_Jump_Up/0000

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