Murphy & The Bricks

[mayennaise]

Anyone come across the above- used to be played alot on our local bbc radio station on a sunday mornin. It was quite funny!!

[mushroom25]

the song you refer to started life as a music hall recitation in the 1920's, and was printed as a story in the Reader's Digest in 1937. The lyrics for the sung version were put together by Pat Cooksey and first performed at a folk club in Coventry in 1969. Since then it has been recorded over 100 times, and under at least 12 different titles, one of which is "Murphy and the Bricks" (that version was variously by Noel Murphy and the Houghton Weavers). The title of the song, as written, is "The Sick Note", perhaps the best known version under a similar title (Paddy's Sick Note)is that by the Dubliners.

[Dusty Bin]

Spot on mushroom25.

However, it's also commonly known as "The Bricklayer's Song".

Use this title in YouTube search engine and there's a few versions you could perhaps enjoy.

Unfortunately not the Murphy and The Bricks one, though, which in my opinion is indeed the definitive recording.

[BaldEagle50]

Hi, If you post and answer with your e-mail then I will forward you the mp3 of the song and I'll even throw in a copy of the lyrics all for free.