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 - The Box Set: 1964 - 2004
Album The Box Set: 1964 - 2004
date of release
19-03-2004

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




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