come and listen, I'll tell you what happened to me   one day as I went down to cork by the sea   the day it wa hot and the sun it was warm   so says I a quiet pint wouldn't do me no harm      I went in and I called for a bottle of stout   says the barman, I'm sorry all the beer is sold out   try whiskey or paddy, ten years in the wood   says I, I'll try the cider, I've heard it was good      oh never, oh never, oh never again   If I live to a hundred or a hundred and ten   I fell to the ground and I couldn't get up   After drinkin' a quart of that Johnny Jump Up      After downing the third I went into the yard   When I bumped into brody the big civic guard   Come here to me boy, don't you know I'm the law   well I up with me fist and I shattered his jaw      he fell to the gound with his knees doubled up   But it wasn't I that hit him was the Johnny Jump Up   Next thing I remember down in cork by the sea   was a cripple on crutches and he says to me      I'm afraid on me life I'll be hit by a car   Won't you help me across to the Celtic Knot Bar?   After drinkin' a quart of that cider so sweet   he threw down his crutches and he danced on his feet      chorus      I went down the lee road, a friend for to see   they call it a madhouse in cork by the sea   well when I got there sure the truth I will tell   they had this poor bugger locked up in a cell      said the guard testing him, say these words if you can   around the rugged rock, the ragged rascal ran   tell him I'm not crazy, tell him I'm not mad   It's only a sip of that bottle I had      chorus      a man died in the mines by the name of macnabb   they washed him and they laid him outside on the slab   well after the parlors measurement did take   his wife brought him home to a bloody fine wake      twas about 12 oclock and the beer was high   the corpse sits up and he says with a sigh   I can't get to heaven, they won't let me up   til I bring 'em a quart of the johnny jump up      chorus      so if ever you go down to cork by the sea   stay out of the alehouse and take it from me   if you want to stay sane don't you dare take a sup   of that devil drink cider called Johnny Jump Up