Christy Moore - Johnny Jump Up Lyrics

“C’mere to me biy don’t you know I’m the law, I upped with me fist and I shattered his jaw!”

Oh yes!

like Damo's better but then Christy is one of the great architects God Bless him

I learned this song from a couple of Cork lads I played rugby with at Waterford RTC in the early eighties. Thanks Niall Dineen and Ralph Keyes. Great memories.

Thanks Cathy Jordan for teaching this song to me in the core summer singing course nice to see that Christy sang it !

GOOD OLD GRANDAD JOE X TAL67

Here because of blindboy boatclub. Great tune.

Blindboy podcast brought me here. Good song to play at a session!

I often went sick off the cider!

I'll tell you a story that happened to me
One day as I went down to Cork by the sea
The sun it was hot and the day it was warm,
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.

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

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 downing a quart of that cider so sweet
He threw down his crutches and danced on his feet

I went up the lee road, a friend for to see
They call it the madhouse in Cork by the Sea
Butl 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

Well, a man died in the mines by the name of McNabb
They washed him and laid him outside on the slab
And 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

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

For the doubters, that's the voice Christy used to sing in in the early days. Just listen the the Prosperous album or early Planxty stuff.

it is deffo him

Sounds totally different tho

@Brid O Donnell not if you listen really closely

@inertia27 i don't understand why people can't recognise Christy Moore's voice straight off.
On 'Follow Me Up To Carlow' he sings with a bit of a Wicklow accent but you'd still know his voice anywhere

johnny jump up

this isnt christy moore singing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christy_Moore_(album)

Nice cider.

Grwan the linden village

what a song

Love to break a garda jaw only up on the johhny jump up lol

It was a Cork song and he first heard it upstairs in a tent

I like it.

I learnt that song in 68 Rathmore road,that big house on the hill. Noel also taught me the basics of mandolin and tenor banjo. They'll let me back in Ireland in 2020 December 8th

Brilliant tune keep up the good work christy

up our that

Fleadh Cheoil!

My grandfather wrote this song back in 1934. I have an old recording of him singing it and I listen to it over and over again along with other poems and prayers he wrote

Wow, Are you and your grandad from Youghal.

paul bennett add me

grmíle paul

I sang this at an open mike and was amazed at the reaction or the young people oh yes a great song Go raibh maigh agat

What a song God Bless you and your grandfather x

This does not sound anything like Christy Moore!

Well it does and doesn't

because its not

This is definitely Christy

@fredpeleke it is

There's loads men.. Name few.. Harry Boland Michael Collins. Dan Breen. Dan Keating who died only in 2007 age 105. If dev never got involved? And left to Collins and Boland they and others might get all Ireland back. I am young man against partition? But I still praise Michael Collins he was hero.. Not like free state army cunts killin poor Harry Boland the hero

@Mark Foley Exactly. Mick did what he thought was best, and for good reason. 

Dia .. b'fhéidir lá amháin beidh Éire saor in aisce ..

@Mark Foley Le do thoil Dia. Tá súil agam ach go bhfuil Éire aontaithe agus ar deireadh saor Bhreatain, mo chara.

Tiocaidh ár lá lads tiocaidh ár lá

Tiocaidh ár lá lads tiocaidh ár lá

If it was the English Civil War then it would be Cromwell they were up against. You can have your opinions about what Cromwell did in the UK but what he did in Ireland was atrocious.

If it's of any interest to you, Preston would not have sided with Cromwell, being Catholics we'd have been on the royalists' side. Same as how we sided with the Scottish in the Jacobite rebellion, again; because we were catholic.

They are called the rebel county because Cork and it's people fought the British like there was no tomorrow between 1919 and 1921. We might still be occupied if not for Cork, and men like Michael Collins.

Cork shot the best rebel they ever produced

Due to it's role in the Irish war of independence, Cork can be proudly called the Rebel County, although that isn't where the name came from. Modern day paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland which you understand to be the IRA certainly have nothing to do with it.

Corkers are only known as the rebel county because of the part they played in the English civil war, they tried to lead a rebellion against the King of England and were captured and executed as a result. Hardly something to brag about but each to their own I suppose.

soulofthenorth you clearly know nothing. spastic

As a Tipperary man I can say that what you say is true, When I brought this up in teh Avenue Bar in Sundays Wells Rd there were mutterings but admiited the truth, They supported King John against the lawful King of England at that time.

soulofthenorth up the ra fuck off ya British fucker

ur country's shite

soulofthenorth fuck off ye British cunt just coz every country hates yiz

So how about you educate the poor man instead of being an ignorant bollocks Mr 04Foxy and showing up the more intelligent among us Irish lol. M

My mom is half irish, german, & english. My dad is half irish, part scottish, french-hugenot, welsh, & if we go back far enough spanish. Also his grandfather was from Australia, who's parents were from New Zealand, on his mother's side. So that makes me one giant American mutt, but still a great portion of Irish. God bless all the countries & their people!!

You're not irish you literal buffoon

what are u talking about i walked in town that day to get cigs and my teacher and like a 1000 people were there with banners saying fuck the queen and shouting shit with them microphone things..:L

jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeuuuuppp up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the name says it all

thecomments on youtube never cease to amaze me. GoingOffOnTangents.ie !

and what a welcome cork gave the queen think we should strip them of that name!

Where is the ideological lunacy?

Louth the Wee County, Monaghan the Farney County.

The People's Republic of Cork.

Very funny, great!

@UnionoftheBrits Know what your talking about before plasterin shite like that, stupid fuck

@countsmyth
Louth and Kildare I think also!

I like Gaelic Storm's version(well the CD version I have)

@bettyswollex
The pale is also parts of meath too!

@bettyswollex
Thats because there where so many rebels in cork. Its not for no reason atall. Up the PIRA and up the true rebels.

@UnionoftheBrits : I've been singing this Song for over 40 years and I agree with you. Its a great Song about a lost time in Ireland not a Political Manifesto. Its also very funny and true at the same time. Everyone knows Cider is called Lunatic Soup for a reason lol.

Sheepstealers from Roscommon :) Hup ya boya!

@bettyswollex After his fine speach just makes sound like the gobshíte he is

@UnionoftheBrits

Obviously more of Brit than Irish if ya don't know what a Cork man means by up the rebel . Gobshite

Great video, Christy Moore,? what can you say? Awesome !!
Irelands best he is...

@UnionoftheBrits
by rebels he means the people of cork its their nickname nothing to do with 1916!!!!!

christ ye yanks,its a song bout drinkin cider,around the rugged rock the raggle rascle ran,people look to much into the words of songs, planks

@UnionoftheBrits Hi, all the Irish County's have nicknames, Dublin is the Pale, Kerry is the Kingdom, Meath is the Royal county, Offaly is the faithful, etc. Cork is the rebel county and the Cork people are known as the Rebels.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeohh :D

Up The CATS

Yup outta dat a real foot tapper

@highwayman012 I'm so glad you enjoy, Bua a chara.

banjo Barney!!

barney is some man on a banjo!!!

fuck the rebels... UP THE DUBS!!!

Late '70's I think - Barney McKenna on the banjo - brilliant stuff

haha, brings back memories :)
saw him play it in The Roundyhouse, in Cork, back in the mid 70's.

Oh never, oh never, oh never again!
If I live 'till 100 or 110,
For I fell to the ground and I couldn't get up!
After drinking a quart of the Johnny Jump Up

F*#KIN BRILLL 5 shtarss

Bit of a foot tapper !