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[Am]I'll tell you a story that happened to me |
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One [G]day as I went down to Youghal by the sea |
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The [Am]sun it was high and the day it was warm |
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Says I an auld [G]pint wouldn't [Em]do me no [Am]harm |
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I went in and I called for a bottle of stout |
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Says the barman I'm sorry the beer is sold out |
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Try whiskey or Paddy ten years in the wood |
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Says I I'll try cider I've heard that it's good |
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O never O never O never again |
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If I live to a hundred or a hundred and ten |
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I fell to the floor and I couldn't get up |
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After drinking a pint of old Johnny Jump Up |
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After drinkin' a quart I went out to the yard |
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Where I met up with Brophy the big local guard |
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Come here to me boy don't you know I'm the law |
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So I jumped up on the counter and kissed him on the jaw |
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We fell to the floor and we couldn't get up |
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But it wasn't me kissed him twas the Johnny Jump Up |
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And the next thing I met down in Youghal by the sea |
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Was a poor man on crutches and says he to me |
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I'm afraid of me life I'll get hit by a car |
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Would you help me across to the Railwayman's Bar? |
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After drinkin a pint of that cider so sweet |
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He threw down his crutches and danced round on his feet |
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A man died in the union by the name of McNab |
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They washed him and shaved him and laid him right out on the slab |
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And after the undertaker his measurements did take |
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His wife took him home to a very fine wake |
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It was about twelve o'clock and the beer it was high |
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The corpse he sat up and says he with a sigh |
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I can't get into heaven for they won't let me up |
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Till I bring them a drink of old Johnny Jump Up |
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O never O never O never again |
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If I live to a hundred or a hundred and ten |
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For I fell to the floor and I couldn't get up |
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After drinking a pint of old Johnny Jump Up |