Lyrics




Ill tell you a story that happened to me
One day as I went down to Youghal by the sea
The sun it was high and the day it was warm
Says I an auld pint wouldn't do me no harm
I went in and I called for a bottle of stout
Says the barman I'm sorry the beer is sold out
Try whiskey or Paddy ten years in the wood
Says I I'll try cider I've heard that it's good
O never O never O never again
If I live to a hundred or a hundred and ten
I fell to the floor and I couldn't get up
After drinking a pint of old Johnny Jump Up
After drinkin' a quart I went out to the yard
Where I met up with Brophy the big local guard
Come here to me boy don't you know I'm the law
So I jumped up on the counter and kissed him on the jaw
We fell to the floor and we couldn't get up
But it wasn't me kissed him twas the Johnny Jump Up
And the next thing I met down in Youghal by the sea
Was a poor man on crutches and says he to me
I'm afraid of me life I'll get hit by a car
Would you help me across to the Railwayman's Bar?
After drinkin a pint of that cider so sweet
He threw down his crutches and danced round on his feet
A man died in the union by the name of McNab
They washed him and shaved him and laid him right out on the slab
And after the undertaker his measurements did take
His wife took him home to a very fine wake
It was about twelve o'clock and the beer it was high
The corpse he sat up and says he with a sigh
I can't get into heaven for they won't let me up
Till I bring them a drink of old Johnny Jump Up
O never O never O never again
If I live to a hundred or a hundred and ten
For I fell to the floor and I couldn't get up
After drinking a pint of old Johnny Jump Up



Writer(s): Christy Moore


Christy Moore - Christy Moore: The Box Set (1964-2004)
Album Christy Moore: The Box Set (1964-2004)
date of release
19-03-2004

1   Yellow Triangle
2   Dunnes Stores
3   They Never Came Home
4   Nuke Power
5   Who Cares?
6   Mullaghmore
7   Hey! Ronnie Reagan
8   St. Patrick's Night in San Fernando
9   Tim Evans
10   Goose Green (Taking Tea with Pinochet)
11   In Zurich
12   The Powdered Milk Brigade
13   Folk Tale
14   Two Conneeleys
15   Don't Forget Your Shovel
16   Quiet Desperation
17   January Man
18   Poor Old Earth
19   Tippin' It Up
20   Poitín
21   1945
22   Little Musgrave
23   Johnny Jump Up
24   Radcliffe Highway
25   John O'Dreams
26   Cold Blow
27   The Raggle Taggle Gypsy
28   El Salvador
29   Jack Doyle (The Contender)
30   Joxer
31   Intro
32   Lawless
33   Different Love Song
34   Changes
35   Ballindine
36   Anne Lovett
37   Dalesman's Litany
38   Farewell to Pripchat
39   The Lakes of Pontcharttrain
40   Cricklewood
41   Strange Ways
42   Wise and Holy Woman
43   Veronica
44   Cry Like a Man
45   Viva la Quinte Brigada
46   The Auld Triangle
47   Brown Eyes (For Joe Shheran)
48   Johnny Connors
49   Lay with Me
50   This Is the Day
51   Among the Wicklow Hills
52   Aisling
53   Grey Lake of Loughrea
54   All I Remember
55   Someone to Love
56   Trip to Carnsore
57   Danny Boy (Derrylondon Air)
58   Ships in the Forest
59   100 Miles from Home
60   Smoke and Strong Whiskey
61   The Way Pierce Turner Sings
62   The Hamburg Medley
63   Tyrone Boys
64   Hey Paddy
65   On the Blanket
66   Southern Winds
67   Don't Hand Me Over
68   Shoot out the Streetlights
69   The Bridge at Killaloe (Scariff Martyrs)
70   North and South
71   At the G.P.O. 1980
72   90 Miles to Dublin
73   Wicklow Boy
74   Ballinamore
75   Rialto Derry January 1993
76   Armagh Women
77   On the Bridge
78   Scapegoats
79   Fouled the Ball
80   No Time for Love
81   On a Single Day
82   Roots
83   The Old Man's Song
84   1913 Lockout
85   Seth Davy
86   The Bould Rake
87   Bridget's Pill
88   The Lark in the Morning
89   Come by the Hill
90   The Enniskillen Dragoon
91   Weela Waile
92   Whiskey in the Jar
93   Tribute to Ewan McColl
94   Finnegan's Wake
95   Down in the Valley
96   Paddy on the Road
97   Three Drunken Maidens




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