What is the name of the Irish folk song that involves a workman winching a heavy weight on a building site and ending up with the bricks on top of him?
This sounds like Gerald Hoffnung's hillarious and brilliant speech, at The Oxford Union Debate, December 4, 1958. It regularly gets passed off as genuine. I think the version you're looking for is: http://paul.merton.ox.ac.uk/work/bricklayer-song.h tml