Johnny Jump Up

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	Well I'll tell you a story that happened to me
	one day as I went out to Yaw by the sea
	the day it was hot, the sun it was warm
	says I "A quick pint wouldn't do any harm"
	I went in and ordered a bottle of stout
	says the barman,"I'm sorry the beers all sold out
	try whiskey young Paddy ten years in the wood"
	says I  *"I'll have cider I've heard that it's good"

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	But never, oh never, oh never again
	if I live to be a hundred or a hundred and ten
	well I fell to the ground and I couldn't get up
	after drinking the quart of the Johnny Jump Up

	After law in the third I came out by the yard
	where I walked into Brofie the big civic guard
	"Come 'ere to me boy don't you know I'm the law"
	I opened *me fist and I shattered his jaw
	well he fell to the ground his knees doubled up
	'twas not I that what hit him 'twas the Johnny Jump Up
	next thing that I met down by Yaw by the sea
	was a cripple on crutches and he said to me
	I'm afraid for me life I'll be hit by a cart
	won't you help me across to the highwaymans bar"
	but after drinkin' a quart of the cider so sweet
	he threw *down his crutches and danced on his feet

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	Well I went down to Liro a friend for to see
	they call it the Madhouse in Cork by the lee
	but when I got there should the truth I will tell
	they had the poor bugger locked up in a cell
	so's the guard tested him "say these words if you can:
	around the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran"
	"Tell them I'm not crazy tell them I'm not mad
	'twas on*ly the sip off the bottle I had

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	A man died in the Union by the name of McNabb
	they washed him they Layed him outside on the slab 
	and after O' Connor his measurements did take
	his wife took him home for a bloody fine wake   (Full force)
	well about twelve O'clock and the beer it was high
	the corpse 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 the Johnny Jump Up"

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