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The Bricklayers Song

June 23, 2007/Show #1256

This song was popularized by Scots singing duo The Corries and is also known as "Why Paddy's Not at Work Today." Amongst many other listeners, physics teachers have written to us for the lyrics to help them teach their students the principals of mechanics.

Dear Sir I write this note to you to tell you of my plight
For at the time of writing it I'm not a pretty sight
My body is all black and blue, my face a deathly grey
And I write this note to say why I am not at work today

Whilst working on the 14th floor some bricks I had to clear
But tossing them down from such a height was not a good idea
The foreman wasn't very pleased he is an arkward sod
And he said I had to cart them down the ladders in me hod

Clearing all these bricks by hand it was so very slow
So I hoisted up a barrel and secured a rope below
But in me haste to do the job, I was too blind to see
That a barrel full of building bricks was heavier than me

And so when I untied the rope the barrel fell like lead
And clinging tightly to the rope I started up instead
I shot up like a rocket, and to my dismay I found
That halfway up I met the bloody barrel coming down

Well the barrel broke me shoulder as to the ground it sped
And when I reached the top I banged the pulley with me head
But I clung on tightly none with shock from this almighty blow
While the barrel spilled out half its bricks some 14 floors below

When these bricks had fallen from the barrel to the floor
I then outweighed the barrel and so started down once more
But I clung on tightly to the rope my body racked with pain
And halfway down I met the bloody barrel once again

Now the force of this collision halfway down the office block
Caused multiple abrasions and a nasty case of shock
But I clung on tightly to the rope as I fell towards the ground
And I landed on the broken bricks the barrel had scattered round.

Now as I lay there on the ground I thought I'd passed the worst
But the barrel hit the pulley wheel and then the bottom burst
A shower of bricks rained down on me I didn't have a hope
As I lay there bleeding on the ground I let go the bloody rope

The barrel now being heavier so started down once more
It landed right across me as I lay there on the floor
It broke 3 ribs and my left arm and I can only say
I hope you`ll understand why I am not at work today .



Performed by The Corries, from their Comedy Collection cd


Copyright 2007 NPR and Fiona Ritchie


Happy Saint Patrick's Day

Just to add another little Irish saying

May your roof never fall in on you
And may your friends never fall out with you

Differently-abled rock stars: A is for Asperger

Happy St Patrick's Day to all you norteamericanos!

:dwarf: :tired:



Family reunion! Bwah ha ha hah!

I went to a somewhat different family reunion in 2005. A tribute show to Leonard Cohen, Came So Far for Beauty, was touring Sydney at the time. Some of the performers from that show put on a separate concert of their own: Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Rufus Wainwright and Martha Wainwright. I've been a McGarrigle fan for decades, and was stoked to learn they'd be in town. But how would the variety of musical styles, theirs and their children's, cohere on stage? The end result was not coherent at all, and the sound quality was absolute crap, but nobody cared. There was plenty of family banter; there were leg spasms from Martha; there were several sly Queer Culture references. In an obvious nod to Sydney's gay scene, we got to hear "Gay Messiah" and!! ! "Cigarettes and Chocolate." It was impossible to make out the lyrics to either, which didn't bother the fans in the slightest. The theatre was packed to the rafters. Word had obviously gotten out to the Canadian expat community: there were a fair few of us from the Great White North in attendance. Good time had by all.

well, those who are not for us are a Guinness. . .


Merle

Well, good evening to all.

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lurking too. . .and stimming!


Merle

Tuesday Afternoon

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Rainy TuesDay Afternoon People topic

You are so young, blessedmom, and we have the same musical tastes? Gordie Lightfoot (love Carefree Highway) and The Moody Blues (love Justin HaywardQuestion)and all the other assorted songs. Thanks for the memories. (':cheers:')

I am young in body but have been told over and over that I am an old soul. I was definitely born 10 to 20 years too late. They just don't make music or many other things the way they did then.

painting ...

I have a dilemma:

My cousin, R....., who is a couple of years older then me, is dying of cancer. The doctors have given her 2 months to live (she thinks it's 6 months) and she is in a nursing home in Lansdale, Pa and will soon be in Hospice. She has no family except for her sister, M....., who lives in Sliddell, LA and me. She has an ex husband and his wife who live in Alabama and whom she is on very good & loving terms with. She also has a life-long girl friend who lives in upstate Pennsylvania. These three have visited her and helped her often since she got sick. She is also from Sliddell and moved up to Lansdale after Katrina, and was fortunate to have been able to transfer her job and keep her medical insurance intact because the company she worked for in Baton Rouge has a branch in Lansdale. After being in Lansdale for about a year, (she arrived in PA in a condition of undiagnosed heart failure, was treated for that, improved much and was able to keep working), only to have a return of breast cancer which had been in remission for about ten years, and which has now spread into her sternum and her stomach. She's taking liquid morphine but will soon be on a morphine drip.

Last night M, who has taken 2 weeks vacation from her job in Sliddell to spend time with her, called me to update me on R's condition. She told me that in spite of R's condition, she is her old "bitchy, bossy" self, and in amazing good spirits. I can't fathom this, I just can't.
I told M that I would call R today, and that I and my husband would drive up to visit sometime during the week after Easter.

I haven't called R yet. I don't know what to say or talk about. Can somebody help me? Any advice? I seem to say the wrong things so often. I don't know how I'm going to manage seeing her in person. How does one act in situations like this? It's terrible that I would have to resort to acting instead of just being natural, but my natural, at least in this case, is certainly not appropriate because while I think it's an horrific bummer for her, I am not emotionally attached to her and feel nothing about the whole situation except something along the order of "it's too bad."

I can't face her being happy-go-lucky like Little Orphan Annie and The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow, because it won't for her, but it will for me. And I can't face her with fake sorrow. The only emotions I really feel about this whole situation are ANGER at a disease called cancer, HELPLESSNESS because I can't do anything to make it go away, and FEAR that the same thing might happen to me, my husband and children. Dealing with situations like this make me feel like a poor excuse of a human being.

Well, you're not a poor excuse for a human being. You're just different.

As for what to say, I think I would just ask her what's new and how she's doing and go from there.

Yes, maybe just focus on the present time, how are you today, is there anything I can do for you right now. I think that's the way to approach this. Thanks. I'll call her and let you know how that goes.

And maybe offer to pray for her.