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Johnny Jump UP
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Bedlam Bards
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Let me tell you a story that happened to me
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One day as I went down to Youghal by the sea
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The day it was hot, the sun it was warm
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Says I "A quick pint wouldn't do any harm"
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Well I went in and I asked for a bottle of stout
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Says the barman to me, "All the beer's all sold out
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Try whiskey, try Paddy, ten years in the wood"
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Says I, "I'll try cider; I've heard that it's good."
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Oh never, oh never, oh never again
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If I live to be a hundred or a hundred and ten
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Well I fell to the ground and I couldn't get up
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After drinking a quart of that Johnny-Jump-Up
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After leavin' the third I went back to the yard
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Where I bumped into Brophy the big civic guard;
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"Come 'ere to me lad don't you know I'm the law?"
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Well I upped with me fist and I shattered his jaw.
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He fell to the ground with his knees doubled up
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It wasn't I'd hit him, t'was the Johnny Jump-Up
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The next thing that I saw down at Youghal by the Sea
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Was a cripple on crutches and he said to me.
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"I'm afeard for me life I'll be hit by a cart
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Won't you help me on over to the longshoremen's bar?"
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After drinkin' a quart of that cider so sweet
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He threw down his crutches and he danced in the street.
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Well I went down to Bedlam a friend for to see,
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They call it the Madhouse near Cork by the Sea
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But when I got there sure the truth I do tell
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They had the poor bugger locked up in a cell
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Now the jailor he said, "Say these word if you can:
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'Around the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran."
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"Tell them I'm not crazy, tell them I'm not mad
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'Twas only a sup of the bottle I had.
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A man died in the Union by the name of M'Crack
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They washed him, they laid him outside on his back
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And after O'Connor his measurements did take
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His wife took him home for a bloody fine wake
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About twelve o'clock and the beer it was high
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When the corpse he sits up and says he 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 quart of Johnny Jump-Up
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Johnny Jump Up - Gaelic Storm
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