Subject: RE: Paddy's Excuse Note who when wh? No other artist had any input into this song nor is any claim for arrangement valid. This includes Dear Boss by The Clancy brothers, The Bricklayers Song by The Corries and Ray Stevens, The Sick Note by The Dubliners, etc,etc, and also Murphy and the Bricks. This song under all alternative titles has always been the exclusive copywright of myself, Pat Cooksey, and is registered with The Performing Rights Society in London. The song under more than 20 alternative titles has since been recorded more than 100 times worldwide, and in every version the words are identical. I personally gave the words of this song to Noel Murphy in a night club in Coventry in the early seventies and his only contribution to this song was to change the title to Murphy and the Bricks, and when this song was recorded Noel Murphy was obliged to remove his name from the writers credits, I still have a letter from Misty River Music to this effect. The song was based on Gerard Hoffnung's wonderful address to the Oxford Union, but the story in a more simple form dates back to the English music halls in the 1920's and appeared in the Readers Digest in 1937.
I wrote this song under it's original title Paddy and the Barrell in 1969, and first performed it in The Dyers Arms in Coventry at this time, and in 1972 Sean Cannon, later to become a member of the Dubliners began to perform it in the folk clubs under the title The Sick Note. Over a long number of years there has been much speculation concerning this song. Subject: Origins: the sick note/ murphy and the bricks. Thread Name: the sick note/ murphy and the bricks.
Cooksey's website has the official lyrics, the history, and (under releases) an MP3 of him singing his own song! The Urban Legends site take on this story. This song is based on the same story/joke referenced in the "Barrel of Bricks" speech by Gerard Hoffnung given at the Oxford Union (December 4th, 1958?) Writer(s): TRADITIONAL, LUKE KELLY, RONALD JOSEPH DREW, BARNEY MCKENNA, CIARON BOURKE, JOHN EDMUND SHEEHANLyrics powered by Paddy’s Not at Work Today - History The History of Paddy In eighteen hundred and forty one, me corduroy breeches I put on Me corduroy breeches I put on, to work upon the railway, the railway I'm weary of the railway, poor Paddy works on the railway In eighteen hundred and forty two, from Bartley Pool I moved to Crewe And I found meself a job to do, workin' on the railway I was wearing corduroy britches Digging ditches, pulling switches, dodging hitches I was workin' on the railway In eighteen hundred and forty three I broke me shovel across me knee And went to work with the company in the Leeds and Selby Railway I was wearing corduroy britches Digging ditches, pulling switches, dodging hitches I was workin' on the railway In eighteen hundred and forty four I landed on the Liverpool shore Me belly was empty, me hands were rough with workin' on the railway, the railway I'm weary of the railway, poor Paddy works on the railway In eighteen hundred and forty five, when Daniel O'Connell he was alive Daniel O'Connell he was alive and workin' on the railway I was wearing corduroy britches Digging ditches, pulling switches, dodging hitches I was workin' on the railway In eighteen hundred and forty six I changed me trade from carryin' bricks Changed me trade from carryin' bricks to workin' on the railway I was wearing corduroy britches Digging ditches, pulling switches, dodging hitches I was workin' on the railway In eighteen hundred and forty seven poor Paddy was thinkin' of goin' ta heaven Poor Paddy was thinkin' of goin' ta heaven, to work upon the railway, the railway I'm weary of the railway, poor Paddy works on the railway I was wearing corduroy britches Digging ditches, pulling switches, dodging hitches I was workin' on the railway
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