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05 Dec 99 - 01:16 AM (#144844) Subject: Johnny Jump Up From: DonMeixner Hello All, I recently heard this song on a CD by a trio called Minstrals of Mayhem. This is the first band that has excited me in awhile. The Battlefield Band being the other most recent. The harmony these gents use are very sweet indeed and their arrangements are unusual and accomplisehed to say the least. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks Don |
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05 Dec 99 - 03:23 AM (#144874) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Johnny Jump Up From: JiB Fairly certain that there was a thread on this in the last 12 months. I have a flight to catch, so sorry can't help more than this. Click here. |
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05 Dec 99 - 07:56 AM (#144898) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Johnny Jump Up From: John in Brisbane Was that you Joe that caused to link to magically appear? Many thanks - a few hors later and I'm back home. Regards, John |
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05 Dec 99 - 06:24 PM (#145120) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Johnny Jump Up From: DonMeixner Thanks John, The lyrics are a big help. Now what I need is the chords. I am unable to decipher this one for some reason. I can't tell if its a minor or major key, modal in nature or just what it is. Usually I can but do to my recent birthday I find I'm experiencing more senior moments. Thanks Don |
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05 Dec 99 - 06:47 PM (#145130) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Johnny Jump Up From: Jon Freeman I'd love to help Don but I've never been able to get the chords right for that song. As I mentioned in another thread, I learned it from a Christy Moore record and he was accompanied by Barney McKenna (playing melody on tenor banjo). It is a song that I sing fairly often but rather than playing chords, to accompany myself, I have always folowed their appoach and play melody on tenor banjo while singing it. Jon |
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05 Dec 99 - 11:52 PM (#145265) Subject: Chords Add: JOHNNY JUMP UP From: alison Hi don,
Here are the chords as I hear them... off the "Gaelic Storm" Cd(great CD BTW) chords before the words they fall on...let me know if you want the tune.... slainte alison |
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06 Dec 99 - 12:36 AM (#145285) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Johnny Jump Up From: DonMeixner Alison, You are truly a joy and a delight. A friend indeed. If it weren't for the miles involved and the fact that I have a local love, I'd challenge Big Mick for your affections. Thanks awfully. Don |
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12 Feb 11 - 08:49 PM (#3094132) Subject: Lyr Add: JOHNNY JUMP UP (Jimmy Crowley) From: GUEST,alison skinner This song was written by Jimmy Crowley a native Cork man. 1. I'll tell you a story that happened to me. One day as I went down to Youghal by the sea, The sun it was bright and the day it was warm. Says I, "A quiet pint wouldn't do me no harm." I went in and called for a bottle of stout. Says the barman, "I'm sorry. The beer is sold out. Try whiskey or paddy, ten years in the wood." Say's I, "I'll try cider. I hear that it's good." CHORUS: Oh never, oh never, oh never again, If I live to a hundred or a hundred and ten! I fell to the ground and I couldn't get up, After drinking a quart of that Johnny-jump-up. 2. After leaving the third I went to the yard, Where I bumped into Brophy, the big civic guard. "Come here to me, boy. Don't you know I'm the law?" I upped with my fist and 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 met in Youghal 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 Railway Men's Bar?" After drinking a quart of that cider so sweet, He throws down his crutches and danced in the street. CHORUS 3. I went up the Lee Road a friend for to see, And they call it the Mad House in Cork by the Lee. But when I got there, the truth I do tell, They had the poor bugger locked up in a cell. Said the guard, testing him, "Say these words if you can: 'Around the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran.'" "Tell them I'm not crazy; tell them I'm not mad. It was only a sup of that cider I had." CHORUS 4. A man died in the Union by the name of McNabb. They washed him and laid outside on the slab, And after O'Connor his measurements did take, His wife took him home for a bloody fine wake. About twelve o'clock and the beer it was high, When the corpse he sits up and says with a sigh: "I can't go to heaven. They won't let me up Till I bring them a quart of this Johnny-jump-up." CHORUS The chords I use are A minor, G, and you can also put in an E minor. Just practice the sequence by doing the chorus as the tune is the same all the way through. |
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12 Feb 11 - 10:14 PM (#3094152) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Johnny Jump Up From: GUEST,Richard I I'm pretty sure the song was originally by Tadgh Jordan, from whom Jimmy Crowley learned it... |
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13 Feb 11 - 06:06 PM (#3094643) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Johnny Jump Up From: michaelr Verse 2, line 1 should be "After lowering the third I went straight for the yard". |
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13 Feb 11 - 06:44 PM (#3094664) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Johnny Jump Up From: MartinRyan The Tadgh Jordan ascription is backed up by a quote from Jimmy HERE Regards |
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14 Mar 14 - 11:09 AM (#3609658) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Johnny Jump Up From: GUEST,Guest Tadgh Jordan certainly wrote this wonderful song. I know this as he was my grandfather. My mothers father. I still have the original words in his handwriting. |
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14 Mar 14 - 11:39 AM (#3609666) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Johnny Jump Up From: MartinRyan Thanks for that GUEST - great to know! Regards |
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14 Mar 14 - 01:47 PM (#3609702) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Johnny Jump Up From: Jack Campin The tune is the 18th century Scottish Jacobite song "My Bonny Moorhen", so you could look for chordings for that. |
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01 May 15 - 09:20 AM (#3705700) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Johnny Jump Up From: Jack Campin I just noticed there is a polka "Johnny Jump Up" by J.E. Magruder, published in California in 1878, on the Lester Levy sheet music site: http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/download_pdf?id=levy%3A160.142 The tune is no relation to "My Bonny Moorhen" and there's no pictorial image on the cover so it's anybody's guess what the significance of the title was. Any California historians out there? |
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01 Nov 19 - 01:13 PM (#4016620) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Johnny Jump Up From: GUEST,Susan Vaslev Does anyone know who holds the copyright/recording rights to Johnny Jump Up and how to contact them? I contacted Christy Moore and was told Jimmy Crowley from Cork but I don't seem to be able to track down proper contact information. |
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04 Nov 19 - 03:47 AM (#4017121) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Johnny Jump Up From: GUEST,Learaí na Láibe Contacts for Jimmmy on here: https://m.facebook.com/pages/category/Musician-Band/Jimmy-Crowley-161723507225228/ Learaí na Láibe |
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04 Nov 19 - 05:55 AM (#4017129) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Johnny Jump Up From: Dave Hanson It is listed in The Christy Moore Songbook as ' traditional ' someone should tell Jimmy. Dave H |