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[00:07.80]Okay here's a song about an Irish man who had a little bad luck
[00:12.44]And I've been told this is a true story
[00:17.47]Dear sir, I write this note to you to tell you of me plight
[00:21.96]For at the time of writing it, I'm not a pretty sight
[00:27.39]Me body is all black and blue, me face a deathly grey
[00:32.02]And I write this note to tell you why I am not at work today
[00:39.18]While working on the 14th floor some bricks I had to clear
[00:43.28]But to toss them down from such a height was not a good idea
[00:48.46]The foreman wasn't very pleased, he is an awkward sod
[00:53.13]He said I had've to cart them down the ladders in me hod
[00:59.33]Now shifting all those bricks by hand, it was so very slow
[01:04.05]So I hoisted up a barrel and secured a rope below
[01:09.58]But in me haste to do the job, I was too blind to see
[01:14.65]That a barrel full of building bricks is heavier than me
[01:20.49]And so when I untied the rope, the barrel fell like lead
[01:25.88]And clinging tightly to the rope, I started up instead
[01:30.53]I shot up like a rocket, too to my dismay I found
[01:35.26]That halfway up I met the bloody barrel coming down
[01:41.60]Now, the barrel broke me shoulder as to the ground it sped
[01:46.77]And when I reached the top, I banged the pulley with me head
[01:51.49]I clung on tightly, numb with shock, from this almighty blow
[01:56.32]And the barrel spilled out half the bricks some fourteen floors below
[02:03.67]Now when these bricks had fallen from the barrel to the floor
[02:07.40]I then outweighed the barrel and so started down once more
[02:12.25]Still clinging tightly to the rope, me body wracked with pain
[02:16.84]Halfway down I met the bloody barrel once again
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[02:26.55]Now force of this collision halfway down the office block
[02:31.18]Caused multiple contusions and a nasty state of shock
[02:35.97]Still clinging tightly to the rope I fell towards the ground
[02:41.24]And I landed on the broken bricks the barrel had scattered round
[02:47.37]Well as I lay there groaning on the ground I thought I'd passed the worst
[02:52.37]But the barrel hit the pulley wheel and then the bottom burst
[02:56.98]A shower of bricks rained down on me; I didn't have a hope
[03:02.23]For as I lay there bleeding I let go the bloody rope
[03:10.63]The barrel being unsecured, the started down once more
[03:15.88]It landed right across me as I lay there on the floor
[03:20.66]It broke three ribs and my left arm, and I can only say
[03:26.92]"That I hope you'll understand why Murphy, is not at work today"
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