Christy Moore - Johnny Jump Up Lyrics

Lyrics Johnny Jump Up - Christy Moore



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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