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    "Johnny Jump Up"genre: Renaissance
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    Drinkers beware the dangers of hard cider
    Label: Mage Records
    Credits: Brobdingnagian Bards

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    Song by the Brobdingnagian Bards, Austin's Original Celtic Renaissance. Learn more about The Bards at http://thebards.net/

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    Guitar chords:
    /Dm /D /C /C
    /Dm /Dm /Dm C /Dm
    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 was 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 cider, I've heard it was good.
    Chorus:
    Oh never, Oh never, Oh never again
    If I live to be a hundred or a hundred and ten
    I fell to the ground and I couldn't get up
    After drinking a quart of the Johnny Jump Up
    Ahhh...
    After downing the third I went out to the yard
    Where 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 ground with his knees doubled up
    But it wasn't I hit him, 'twas Johnny Jump Up
    The next thing I remember down in Cork by the sea
    Was a cripple on crutches and says he to me
    I'm afraid of me life I'll be hit by a car
    Won't you help me across to the Celtic Knot Bar?
    After drinking a quart of that cider so sweet
    He threw down his crutches and danced on his feet
    Chorus...
    I went down the lee road, a friend for to see
    They call it the 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 was only a sip of the bottle I had
    Chorus...
    A man died in the mines by the name of McNabb
    They washed him and laid him outside on the slab
    Well after the parlors measurements did take
    His wife brought him home to a bloody fine wake
    Twas about 12 o'clock and the beer was high
    The corpse sits up and says with a sigh
    I can't get to heaven, they won't let me up
    Til I bring them a quart of the Johnny Jump Up
    Chorus...
    So if ever you go down to Cork by the sea
    Stay out of the ale house 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
    Chorus... (x2)

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