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Johnny Jump Up
Found in Johnny_Jump_Up.abc
from the John Chambers abc collection
X:1 T:Johnny Jump Up C:Traditional S:Wylde Nept Z:ABC by Thornton Rose, Jan. 2002 M:3/4 L:1/4 K:G E | E B B | B A B | G<E E | E2 w:1.~I'll tell you a stor-y that hap-pened to me. F | D E F | A B A | A F E | D2 w:One day as I went down to Youghal by the sea. d | e d B | B A B | B ^c d | e2 w:The sun it was bright, and the day it was warm. d | e d e | B A B | G>E E | E2 :| w:Says I, "A wee pint would-n't do me no harm". E | E B B | B A B | G<E E | E2 w:Ch.~Oh, nev-er, oh, nev-er, oh, nev-er a-gain, F/2F/2 | D>E F/2F/2 | A B A/2A/2 | A F E | D2 w:If I live to be a hun-dred or a hun-dred and ten. d | e d B | B A B | B ^c d | e2 w:I fell to the ground, and I could-n't get up, d/2d/2 | e d e | B A B | G<E E | E2 |] w:Af-ter drink-ing a quart of that John-ny Jump Up. % 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.
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