Christy Moore – Johnny Jump Up (Guitar Live)
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Note: All Am Chords can be played with a Asus2 and a hammered on C on the B string
or just change between Asus2 and Am to add a bit of flavour
[Verse 1]
Am Am I'll tell you a story that happened to me G Am G Am Asus2 Am Asus2 One day as I went down to Youghal by the sea Am Am The sun it was high and the day it was warm G Am G Am Asus2 Am Asus2 Says I a quiet pint wouldn't do me no harm
[Verse 2]
Am I went in and I called for a bottle of stout G Am G Am Says the barman I'm sorry all the beer 't'was sold out Am Try whiskey or Paddy ten years in the wood G Am G Am Says I I'll try cider I've heard that it's good
[Chorus]
Am O never O never O never again G Am G Am If I live to a hundred or a hundred and ten Am I fell to the floor and I couldn't get up G Am G Am After drinking a pint of old Johnny Jump Up
[Verse 3]
Am After drinkin' a quart I went out to the yard G Am G Am Where I bumped into Brophy the big local guard Am Come here to me boy don't you know I'm the law G Am G Am So I gave him a kiss on his stubbly old jaw
[Verse 4]
Am We fell to the floor and we couldn't get up G Am G Am But it wasn't me kissed him t'was the Johnny Jump Up Am And the next thing I met down in Youghal by the sea G Am G Am Was a poor man on crutches and says he to me
[Verse 5]
Am I'm afraid of me life I'll get hit by a car G Am G Am Would you help me across to the Railwayman's Bar? Am After drinkin a pint of that cider so sweet G Am G Am He threw down his crutches and danced round on his feet
[Chorus]
Am O never O never O never again G Am G Am If I live to a hundred or a hundred and ten Am I fell to the floor and I couldn't get up G Am G Am After drinking a pint of old Johnny Jump Up
[Verse 6]
Am I went up the lee road, a friend for to see G Am G Am They call it the madhouse in Cork by the Sea Am But when I got up there, the truth I do tell, G Am G Am They had the poor bugger locked up in a cell
[Verse 7]
Am Said the guard, testing him, say these words if you can, G Am G Am "Around the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran" Am Tell them I'm not crazy, tell him I'm not mad G Am G Am It was only a sip of the bottle I had
[Chorus]
Am O never O never O never again G Am G Am If I live to a hundred or a hundred and ten Am I fell to the floor and I couldn't get up G Am G Am After drinking a pint of old Johnny Jump Up
[Verse 8]
Am A man died in the union by the name of McNabb G Am G Am They washed him and shaved him laid put him on the slab Am And after the undertaker his measurements did take G Am G Am His wife brought him home to a jolly fine wake
[Verse 9]
Am T'was 'bout 12 o'clock and the beer was high G Am G Am When th corpse he sits up and said with a sigh Am I can't get to heaven, 'cause they won't let me up G Am G Am 'tilL I bring them a quart of the Johnny Jump Up
[Chorus]
Am O never O never O never again G Am G Am If I live to a hundred or a hundred and ten Am I fell to the floor and I couldn't get up G Am G Am After drinking a pint of old Johnny Jump Up
[Verse 10] [*additional, not sung by Christy Moore*]
Am So if ever you go down to Youghal by the sea G Am G Am Stay out of the ale house and take it from me Am If you want to stay sane don't you dare take a sup G Am G Am Of that devil drink cider called Johnny Jump Up
[Chorus]
Am O never O never O never again G Am G Am If I live to a hundred or a hundred and ten Am I fell to the floor and I couldn't get up G Am G Am After drinking a pint of old Johnny Jump Up