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Can anyone please help??!! What is this ballad thats stuck in my head??

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  • 27-06-2008 6:55pm
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    brousuka
    Registered Users Posts: 412 ✭✭


    Please help guys and gals! there's a tune stuck in my head for weeks now and I can't find the name to it anywhere, apart from humming the tune the only words (disjointed)I have to it are: Oh Doctor, oh Doctor oh dear Doctor.... if i live to be a hundred or a hundred and ten...... Can anyone please help??!!


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    #2
    Boxman
    Registered Users Posts: 109 ✭✭Boxman


    Sounds like "Johnny jump up" but without the Doctor references.


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    fitz0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,753 ✭✭✭fitz0


    Yep sonds like Johnny Jump Up. Christy Moore has a version of it on his boxset.
    Think the bit you're referring to goes like this
    "Oh never, oh never, oh never again
    If I live to a hundred
    Or a hundred an ten
    For I fell to the ground
    And I couldn't get up
    After drinkin a quart of the Johnny Jump Up"


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    brousuka
    Registered Users Posts: 412 ✭✭brousuka


    Ja$us thats it lads!! thanks so much!!!


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    yomchi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,621 ✭✭✭yomchi


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u56R_qHTLVI

    :)


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    doolox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭doolox


    The Dubliners used to do a version called "Cod Liver Oil" and also Jimmy Crowley the Corkonian balladeer did a version called Johnny Jump up about cider aged in old whiskey barrels............


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