Johnny Jump Up (P.R.F version 2.1)taken from The Blackfryars Songbook I’ll tell you a story that happen to me, One day as I walked down to Yaw-by-the-Sea. The day it was hot, and the sun it was warm, Says I, "A quick pint wouldn’t do me no harm." I went in and ordered a bottle of stout, Says the barman, "I’m sorry, the beer’s all sold out." (What!) "Try whiskey on paddy, ten years in the wood." Says I, "I’ll have cider, I’ve heard that it’s good." Chorus: Well I never, no never, no never again, If I live to be a hundred or a hundred and ten, I fell to the ground, I could not get up, After drinking a quart of that Johnny Jump Up! After downing a third, I came out by the yard, Where I ran into Northton, the big Yeoman guard. "Come here to me boy, don’t ya' know I’m the law?" Well I upped with me fist and I shattered his jaw. Well, he fell to the ground, his knees doubled up. 'Twas not I that hit him, 'twas the Johnny Jump Up. After drinking a quart of the cider so sweet, I took a big swig and danced on me feet. (chorus) Well I went out to Lero, a friend for to see. They call it The Madhouse in Court by the Lee. But when I got there, sure the truth I will tell, They had the poor bugger locked up in a cell! Now the guard tested him, Say these words if you can, "Around the rugged rocks, the ragged rascal ran." Tell them I’m not crazy, tell them I’m not mad, 'Twas only a sip of that cider I had. (chorus) Now a man down from Scotland, by the name of McNabe. They dressed him, they laid him outside on the slab. And after O’Conner his measurements did take, His wife took him home to a bloody fine wake. Well the clock it was twelve and the beer it was high, The corpse he sits up and he says with a sigh, "I can’t get to heaven, they won’t let me up, ‘Til I bring them a quart of that Johnny Jump Up!" (chorus x 2) |
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