Bedlam Bards - Johnny Jump UP Lyrics
Let me tell you a story that happened to meOne day as I went down to Youghal by the seaThe day it was hot, the sun it was warmSays I "A quick pint wouldn't do any harm"Well I went in and I asked for a bottle of stoutSays the barman to me, "All the beer's all sold outTry whiskey, try Paddy, ten years in the wood"Says I, "I'll try cider; I've heard that it's good."ChorusOh never, oh never, oh never againIf I live to be a hundred or a hundred and tenWell I fell to the ground and I couldn't get upAfter drinking a quart of that Johnny-Jump-UpAfter leavin' the third I went back to the yardWhere I bumped into Brophy the big civic guard;"Come 'ere to me lad don't you know I'm the law?"Well I upped with me fist and I shattered his jaw.He fell to the ground with his knees doubled upIt wasn't I'd hit him, t'was the Johnny Jump-UpThe next thing that I saw down at Youghal by the SeaWas a cripple on crutches and he said to me."I'm afeard for me life I'll be hit by a cartWon't you help me on over to the longshoremen's bar?"After drinkin' a quart of that cider so sweetHe threw down his crutches and he danced in the street.ChorusWell I went down to Bedlam a friend for to see,They call it the Madhouse near Cork by the SeaBut when I got there sure the truth I do tellThey had the poor bugger locked up in a cellNow the jailor he said, "Say these word if you can:'Around the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran.""Tell them I'm not crazy, tell them I'm not mad'Twas only a sup of the bottle I had.ChorusA man died in the Union by the name of M'CrackThey washed him, they laid him outside on his backAnd after O'Connor his measurements did takeHis wife took him home for a bloody fine wakeAbout twelve o'clock and the beer it was highWhen the corpse he sits up and says he with a sigh"I can't get to heaven, they won't let me up'Till I bring them a quart of Johnny Jump-UpChorus
