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The Bricklayers Song

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This is a correction of phoenix1984's upload Capo wherever's comfortable for your voice - it's in different places in every recording I've heard. C G C Dear Sir I write this note to you to tell you of my plight F C G For at the time of writing it, I'm not a pretty sight F C F Am My body is all black and blue, my face a deathly grey C G C And I write this note to say why I am not at work today C G C While working on the fourteenth floor some bricks I had to clear F C G But tossing them down from such a height was not a good idea F C F Am The foreman wasn't very pleased, he is an awkward sod C G C And he said I had to cart them down the ladders in me hod C G C Well clearing all these bricks by hand, it was so very slow F C G So I hoisted up a barrel and secured a rope below F C F Am But in me haste to do the job, I was too blind to see C G C That a barrel full of building bricks was heavier than me C G C And so when I untied the rope the barrel fell like lead F C G And clinging tightly to the rope, I started up instead F C F Am I shot up like a rocket, and to my dismay I found C G C That halfway up I met the bloody barrel coming down C G C Well the barrel broke me shoulder, as to the ground it sped F C G And when I reached the top I banged the pulley with me head F C F Am But I clung on tightly numb with shock from this almighty blow C G C While the barrel spilled out half its bricks some fourteen floors below C G C When these bricks had fallen from the barrel to the floor F C G I then outweighed the barrel and so started down once more F C F Am But I clung on tightly to the rope me body racked with pain C G C And halfway down I met the bloody barrel once again C G C Now the force of this collision halfway down the office block F C G Caused multiple abrasions and a nasty case of shock F C F Am But I clung on tightly to the rope as I fell towards the ground C G C And I landed on the broken bricks the barrel had scattered round. C G C Now as I lay there on the ground I thought I'd passed the worst F C G But the barrel hit the pulley wheel and then the bottom burst F C F Am A shower of bricks rained down on me I didn't have a hope C G C As I lay there bleeding on the ground I let go of the bloody rope C G C The barrel now being heavier so started down once more F C G It landed right across me as I lay there on the floor F C F Am It broke three ribs and my left arm and I can only say C G C I hope you`ll understand why I am not at work today
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