The Sick Note lyrics

Artist  : Dubliners 
Song : The Sick Note



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Dear Sir, I write this note to you to tell you of
me plight
and at the time of writing, I am not
a pretty sight;
me body is all black and blue,
me face a deathly gray
and I write this note to
say why Paddy's not at work today. 

While
working on the fourteenth floor some bricks I had
to clear;
now, to throw them down from such a
height was not a good idea.
the foreman wasn't
very pleased, he beeing an awkward sod
he said
I'd have to cart them down the ladders in me hod.


Now, clearing all these bricks by hand it
was so very slow,
so I hoisted up a barrel and
secured the rope below.
But in me haste to do
the job I was to blind to see
that a barrelful
of building bricks was heavier than me. 

So
when I untied the rope the barrel fell like
lead
and clinging tightly to the rope I
started up instead.
Well, I shot up like a
rocket till to my dismay I found
that halfway
up I met the bloody barrel comming down.


Well, the barrel broke me shoulder as to
the ground it sped,
and when I reached the top
I banged the pully with my head.
Well, I clung
on tight through numbed shock from this almighty
blow
and the barrel spilled out half the
bricks fourteen floors below. 

Now, when
these bricks had fallen from the barrel to the
floor
I then outweighed the barrel and so
started down once more;
still clinging tightly
to the rope, I sped towards the ground,
and I
landed on the brocken bricks that were all
scattered round. 

Well, I lay there
groaning on the ground, I thougth I'd passed the
worst,
when the barrel hit the pully-wheel and
then the bottom burst.
Well, a shower of bricks
rained down on me, I hadn't got a hope
as I lay
there moaning on the ground, I let go of the
bloody rope. 

The barrel than being
heavier, it started down once more,
and landed
right across me, as I lay upon the floor.
Well,
it broke three ribs and my left arm and I can only
say
that I hope you'll understand why Paddy's
not a work today.