Johnny Jump Up Chords

by Gaelic Storm
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Full song with no capo and simple chords - in the original I believe that it is played with capo at 2 and transposed down a 2 semi tones starting with a Dm.Was this info helpful?
Difficulty: beginner
Tuning: E A D G B E
Capo: no capo
Author cracklinrosiek [a] 76.
2 contributors total, last edit on Apr 8, 2023

Chords

Em
D
G
C
Am
Bm

Strumming

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[Intro]
| Em | % | % | Em D |
| Em | % | % | Em D |
 
 
[Verse 1]
     Em
I'll tell you a story that happened to me
    D
One day as I went down to Youghal by the Sea
    Em                        G          D
The sun it was bright and the day it was warm
     Em         D             Em    D  Em
Says I, A quiet pint wouldn't do me no harm
 
  Em
I went in to the barman, I said give me a stout
         D
Says the barman, I'm sorry all the beer 'twas sold out
    Em                    G            D
Try whiskey or vodka, ten years in the wood
     Em          D      Em          D        Em
Says I, I'll try cider, I've heard that it's good
 
 
[Chorus]
   Em
Oh never, oh never, oh never again
     D
If I live to a hundred or a hundred and ten
  Em                       G            D
I fell to the ground and I couldn't get up
      Em         D           Em     D    Em
After drinkin' a pint of the Johnny Jump Up
 
 
[Turnaround]
| Em  D | Em D Em |
 
 
[Verse 2]
      Em
After lowering the third I headed straight for the yard
        D
Where I bumped into Brophy the big civic guard
     Em                        G            D
Come here to me boy, don't you know I'm the law
       Em            D          Em        D   Em
Well I upped with my fist and I shattered his jaw
 
   Em
He fell to the ground with his knees doubled up
       D
Wish it wasn't I hit him, for the Johnny Jump Up
        Em                       G              D
And the next thing I met down in Youghal by the Sea
      Em         D             Em      D  Em
Was a cripple on crutches, and says he to me
 
     Em
I'm afraid of me life I'll be hit by a car
          D
Would you help me across to the Railwayman's Bar
    Em                       G        D
And after three pints of the cider so sweet
   Em             D               Em        D   Em
He threw down his crutches and he danced at his feet
 
[Chorus]
   Em
Oh never, oh never, oh never again
     D
If I live to a hundred or a hundred and ten
      Em                       G            D
Cuz I fell to the ground and I couldn't get up
      Em         D           Em     D    Em
After drinkin' a pint of the Johnny Jump Up
 
 
[Instrumental]
| Em | % | % | Em |
| D  | % | % | %  |
| Em | % | % | D  |
 
| Em | D | Em D Em |
 
| Em | % | % | Em |
| D  | % | % | %  |
| Em | % | % | D  |
 
| Em | D | Em D Em |
 
 
[Verse 3]
      Em
Now I went up the Lee road a friend for to see
     D
They call it the Madhouse in Cork by the Lee
    Em                       G          D
But when I got up there, the truth I do tell
     Em           D             Em    D   Em
They had the poor bugger locked up in his cell
 
         Em
Says the guard testing him, say these words if you can
  D
'Around the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran'
     Em                       G            D
Tell them I'm not crazy, tell them I'm not mad
      Em       D             Em    D Em
'Twas only six pints of that cider I had
 
 
[Turnaround]
| Em  D | Em D Em |
 
 
[Verse 4]
      Em
Now a man died in the Union by the name of McNabb
     D
They washed him and placed him outside on a slab
    Em                G                D
And after the coroner his measurements did take
    Em            D         Em     D    Em
His wife took him home to a bloody fine wake
 
      Em
'Twas about twelve o'clock and the beer it was high
    D
The corpse he sat up and he says with a sigh
  Em                        G            D
I can't get to heaven, they won't let me up
       Em           D           Em     D    Em
Till I bring them a pint of the Johnny Jump Up
 
 
[Chorus]
   Em
Oh never, oh never, oh never again
     D
If I live to a hundred or a hundred and ten
      Em                       G            D
Cuz I fell to the ground and I couldn't get up
      Em         D           Em     D    Em
After drinkin' a pint of the Johnny Jump Up
 
   Em
Oh never, oh never, oh never again
     D
If I live to a hundred or a hundred and ten
      Em                       G            D
Cuz I fell to the ground and I couldn't get up
      Em         D           Em     D    Em
After drinkin' a pint of the Johnny Jump Up
 
(Morrison's Jig)
 
[Outro]
| Em D | Em | G D | Em D | G D |
| Em D | Em | G D | Em D | G D |
 
| Em | % | % | C D |
| Em | % | % | G D |
| Em | % | % | C D |
 
| G | D | Am Bm | C D |
 
| Em D | Em | G D | Em D | G D |
| Em D | Em | G D | Em D | G D |
 
| Em | % | % | C D |
| Em | % | % | G D |
| Em | % | % | C D |
 
| G | D | Am Bm | C D |
 
| Em D | Em | G D | Em D | G D |
| Em D | Em | G D | Em D | G D |
 
| Em | % | % | C D |
| Em | % | % | G D |
| Em | % | % | C D |
 
| G | D | Am Bm | C D | Em |
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2 comments
ctlagb44
do you happen to know the strum pattern for this? I keep trying but I can't get it right it seems :/ great job by the way!
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