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steve_nova | 19:59 Tue 23rd Jul 2002 | Music
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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?
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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
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long shot!! ...Tennessee Ernie Ford - Big Bad John ???
the Corries have a version of this song and it is called The Bricklayer Song

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