Noel Murphy - Murphy and the Bricks (Pat Cooksey)

[ThePackDogWalks]

I heard this version on the radio when I was in my Gramps' house years ago. At that time with no Internet, I could never find who sang the song, eventually I found The Corries' version on a comedy CD and was so delighted that I bought it for Gramps for his birthday, we lost him in August last year and last night my mum gave me the CD, she found it while she was clearing the house. On here looking through some Corries stuff and saw this, it is great to hear this version again! So funny! :D

[lemonsalamander]

if some dude was telling you this, calm as could be, and is still alive...you have to laugh in disbelief....the way im doing now at the possibility of someone not finding this at least somewhat amusing. Goldarn office people and your friggin futons

[robbietj1964]

Oh come on..... It's Humour, and thats laughing at other folks misfortune, Thats Life............ Go get some Laurel @ Hardy.......... have a few whiskeys........ and let your hair down........ It makes the world a better place with laughter........ Rob J x

[saturnfiverocket]

Someone put his "whiskey in the jar " version on, please

[Debisawesome]

HAHA love it!!

BTW: is ANYONE having a problem with that new STUPID Reddit tab?? in leaving comments on youtube? Google screws up everything!!

[jestersmurf12]

only one word can describe this song.......classic

[gnwillou]

For those a little sensitive....."No builders, barrows or bricks were harmed in the making of this song".....

[NickellNo1]

It was a waste of time putting pictures up for this video. I had so many tears of laughter I couldn't see them anyway.Absolutely hilarious no matter what the kraut says.

[AngelaTheTrombonist]

@conniff44 yeah, I don't get what's supposed to be so funny about it...are you saying that you DO find it funny?

[paul3rith34]

Funniest song ever, Radio Kent played it alot years ago :-)

[AngelaTheTrombonist]

My grandparents think that this is hilarious...am I missing something?

[conniff44]

@AngelaTheTrombonist

Are you saying you don't find it funny ??

[deamonfate]

@AngelaTheTrombonist pay attention to the lyrics. it's a sick note that Pat Cooksey made back in the day, this was made into a song, it's basically explaining what happened to him and why he's off work.

[tectorama]

Not half as funny as the original version by Gerard Hoffnung.

That is still a classic

[MySearcher1]

The reason why people are laughing, is because of a series of a series of unfortunate icidents (coincidences that happen to this guy.) And I think it is very funny, too. I have to hay, though, that if I ended up with that many serious injuries, I don't think I would find it funny. But.....Everything in context.

[nicoalphalpha]

This story was told by Gerard Hoffnung to The Oxford Union in the 1950's - it's available on Youtube. I first heard this version while driving along the M4 motorway, and laughed so much I had to pull onto the hard shoulder.

[inisk]

I saw Noel many a time in and around London, great night out unless he became to drunk. I still have two LP,s he recorded, the first one recorded in the sixties is mostly all the artists singing after they had had a good drink before they returned to the studio.

[195477]

Heard this for forst time yesterday on the radio......excellent.

[MoonrakerMart]

You can't not laugh at this. Absolute classic!!

[blobsofcolour]

I love this song :D it makes me laugh everytime :)

[Lisnageeragh]

The best version!! This was before the health and safety legislation !

[LunarPaw1138]

Brilliant.

[goofysmick]

They don't come funnier than this, brilliant.

[TheAndyollerenshaw]

I saw Noel many years ago in The Cabbage Patch pub in Twickenham, fantastic artist.

[AblunaLunara]

@TheAndyollerenshaw I saw him in the "cousins" in Soho frigging 50 years ago, and he wa s GREAT then, and now,as well, I guess? Cheers, I say

[boundsgreenboy]

I met Noel in the UKs' most southerly pub last Sunday (12/09/10),he is a friend of my fathers,and i have to say he he is one of the greatest characters i have ever met.

[stonewroc1]

love it love it love it!!!!!

well done Noel

[TheSarahJD]

makes me smile :) funny song 

[mistral55]

and would you believe it??.. it does work!!..lol

google mythbusters , barrel of bricks, your discovery. ;)

[colster71]

Absolutely brilliant

[SAMMYCOisDAVE]

haha so random lol

[katy1423]

Haha I remember this song :')

My dad always used to play it when we came back from the sea side xD good ol'e days

[seanboxall]

just as funny as ivor biggun's the winkers song lol

[sadlobster1]

I think the reason why people laugh at this song is because the scenerios and injuries are so outrageously ridiculous that it's funny

[loperspest]

Why are people laughing? I mean, schadenfreude much?

[conniff44]

Germans are well known worldwide for not having a sense of humour, I think you have just proved the case.

[loperspest]

@conniff44

Considering that schadenfreude means pleasure at others misfortune, I think they do. Seriously, I like a good cartoon buffeting, I love Looney Tunes, but this is too real to be funny, IMO.

FYI, I am as German as Yorkshire Pudding.

[conniff44]

My apologies. I used an online translator so they aren't as good as they profess to be.

I stand corrected and don't forget the roast beef to go with the Yorkies.

[loperspest]

@conniff44

Oh, absolutely. You can barely HAVE roast beef without the Yorkshire Pudding.

[ravenstar100]

thank you so much for telling us this!

i heard this on the billy butler show when i was 15 and was in hysterics!

[AprilsFate10]

I love it. I can't help but laugh everytime.

[BigFatManPie]

i live across the road from noel hes a beast, he keeps us up all night with his kirk hammet wahpounder solos from the roof of his house with his 4 marshall stacks

[HIKMIESTER]

I bought a double CD called the 'THE QUALITY OF MURPHY' celebrating Noels career it runs like live gig, with 40 odd tracks, it is a real gem, with an original version of 'the bricks' i played it and others in my mums car she nearly crashed it, laughing so much, there are sing-a-longs, and sad eg 'those who got lost in the world' but i'm glad i found it! at PO BOX 57 HELSTON CORNWALL, I paid £16 inc pp, chq made payable to N.Murphy...it arrived soon after, I think he has a website?

[ShinobiDevin]

Well, someone from Facepunch showed me this, and I'm so happy they did. This is hilarious!

[maffeu]

This sounds like a job for Claims Direct.....

[mjesaab]

Me too, R2, not stopped playin it since!! lol

[Yarbsemaj]

The best song I have ever heard

[sogorman0]

heard it many times but still laugh myself silly

[lcfc1972]

i heard it this morning on R2 whilst driving into London and i couldn't stop laughing and have played it numerous times to colleagues in all our offices.. best thing that Kennedy girl has played since!!!!?

[lemma1968]

Good old radio 2 - seemed to make us all titter today.

It was good to have a laugh for once.

[03121953]

like the rest of you i heard it on radio 2 this morning while i was in bed, it was nice to be woken with a laugh

[Davejcb]

Heard it on Radio 2 had me in stitches, my Dad used to play it on the guitar ...

[swampbug82]

think it is fab, always made me laught! radio 2 just reminded me of it!!!!

[Rockingham76]

I heard on Radio 2 this morning. Bril!

[dogsbollox5]

Me too. Still hilarious.

[pmeako]

i 2 heard it on radio 2 , i was crying with tears of laughter, brilliant

[TotodileFan2009]

Yeah, me too!

[paxtonspur]

i 2 heard on radio this morning, on way to walking me dog, started crying with laughter, had to stop. thanks Ms Kennedy

[jasonthunderpants]

sarah kennedy played this on radio 2 this morning ,very very funny

[lmcgregoruk]

Thats why I looked it up here :)

[jasonthunderpants]

good init..

[nottm101]

ma dad sang this to me i had to force him lol but now every time i here this it still makes me laugh

[geoff1945]

A great song and singer. you made a good job of recording this and the images were spot on.

Beautiful!

The song is reminiscent of 'Five pounds a Day' another 'Brickie' song.

Thanks for sharing Fiddler1950

[gog0000001]

funnest song , good old radio 2 turn me into a kid too :0

[dacregirl]

I heard this on Radio 2 as well, I had to stop driving I was laughing so hard!

[deano592913]

lmao i love this song my dad told me about it when he herd it on radio 2 yesterday its soooooo funny

[meyarz]

LMAO every time I hear this I first heard it as a kid in the mid 80s and remembered it all this so so funny, is even funnier if you dont watch the vid just lisen ha ha ha

[conniff44]

Sorry about the vid - it was my first atempt.

[meyarz]

Sorry I didnt mean for it sound like I was putting your video down I really really wasn't, its just i first heard this on record and if you close your eyes when listening to something you can hear the words much clearer and also imaging a little guy going through all that :)

[conniff44]

No apology required, it's crap, some pics taken from images and couldn't find all the ones to go with the passage being sung. I'm not sure if the video can be edited as I've learned a lot since this one.

Glad you enjoyed it, it really is one of the funniest songs.

[fairportfan2]

Actually, i believe that the earliest version of the story i've run across was from Mark Twain.

Garrison Keillor did a version in a monolog on "Prairie Home Companion"; his version was about a farmer who was building a brick silo when he saw a tornado coming and decided to get down off the roof of the barn.

Reasoning that a man who left a barrel of bricks up high for a tornado to play with would not be popular with the neighbours, he decided to get it down...

[yaellavie]

Funny video and folk song...

Thanks to Fiddler for sharing it

Yael

[conniff44]

Who's Fiddler ?

[yaellavie]

fiddler1950 is Mick !!

[bryanoverturf1]

5 great vid and thank mick,,,for the share,,,bry

[jworpington]

heard this on the radio 2day. brightened up a grey mornin

[hadjipt]

Hilarious!!

Loved it!!!

[Tashatastic9]

This was the first version of the song I heard, followed by the corries, as much as I love the corries this is my favourite!!!

[Duffylaaaaad]

brilliant xx

[hilarysutube]

God, the memories this brought back....Les Cousins,1965 to 1967. Thanks Noel!

[barneynedward]

talk about a bad day at work

[ZoneFighter1]

You've got to be kidding. This version has no feeling at all.

[jameswp1946]

I first saw Noel Murphy 40 years ago, he is a class act, a great folk singer, a wealth of funny stories and gives a great night out

[InitiativeProduction]

Wish someone would put on the Dubliners version of this song.

[MrFoxmolder]

pmpl loved the pics well done m8

[5times55]

brilliant, very funny

[Walress1980]

from a fellow Noel Murphy, this one from the town of beal atha na sluigha.

Class.

[mikel1239]

a hod is like a big sack tht u fill with brocks tht u throw over ure shoulder and carry it round... very funny 5/5

[sesskikofan]

...What's a hod?

[munchkindude100]

when he says that, theres a picture of a builder and a hod....used to carry more bricks with ease

[softfool]

the dubliners version is the origional and the best version of this song

[Mrmcgourty]

I agree i think the dublin version is better, there is more humor in it.

[trekjock]

I disagree, I've listened to the dubliners versions and there's no feeling in them... Noel sings this song as if he's really writen the letter. What a brilliant version.

[Lotsolov4u]

This is the funniest song ever. I heard it on the radio for the first time a couple of days ago and now i love it!!

[12134567891234567891]

Songs like this make me glad to be part irish.

[conniff44]

I have to admit that there are certain songs and types of songs that the Irish accent adds to it's quality.

In this case I think it made the song.

[dakry]

Yes I would agree with that. I do alot of pub singing with members of the choir i'm with and alot of the songs they sing come from the Irish song tour they did a long time back. The reception was apparently brillient(I was too young to go by quite a bit ^^ ) and the songs were just as good. The Cornish, Irish, Welsh and Scottish I must say write bloody good songs with good feeling!

Dak's

[freddiesa]

this is by far the best version of this song brilliant all others should stay away from this song ,they cant compare

[Wowbagger86]

Pat Cooksey is quite good at singing his song as well :) Just ordered a CD for my father... but I might play it a couple of times myself before his birthday ;)

[Wowbagger86]

But this version was wonderfull... I will look for more Noel Murphy music :)

[gouren1]

gentlemen singing yeehaa songs god bless them.

[dafray16]

Grannybuttons and others have mentionted the Gerard Hoffnung version of this - it's available here on YouTube.

[winniefull]

Noel Murphy lived and made a lot of money beleiving by everyone that he wrote this song, living a lie it was hard to stop but in reality he could not admit that he got the song from tne original author, Pat Cooksey.

[fr00ctal]

this is so sweet. funny^^ love these kinds of songs

[pinkpinkpunk42]

HAA! :)

[Awesomex80s]

Haha this song is awful but my dad loves it!!

[hmdfuckinmassive]

can sum one send me this song for my grandad please :)

[andrewcdavies]

Heard this on Sarah Kennedy the other morning. Imagine, 44ton artic on the M5 and me driving with tears streaming down my face!!! Classic fun.

[interred2]

always loved the song.great video

[interred2]

always loved the song.great video

[hinghangho]

brilliant!

[DarkStar2404]

I heard this yesterday, on the Terry Wogan Show, while driving on the M6. Picture the scene - driving down the M6 with tears of laughter streaming down my face and trying hard not to have an accident - either the automobile or the other kind! Too funny

[gemcheshire]

I did the same...... North bound on the M6 @ j18 this came on and it made my day :o>

[richtwotwo]

try murphys website for a great compilation

and tell yur mates

[tiw8943]

At last I found it, now the wife loves the song I tried to explain last year on children in need day after mr Wogan played it. She nearly wet herself.

Thankyou u-tube

[alanfromdarwen]

love this song, this is the best version of all, its really good, love it so much i have had a go at it myself, if you would like to take alook..

[GCCourt]

What A Song lmfao

[TheMovieMaker123]

in 25 years time youtube will be a great historical site to look back at the past and smile...

Good work YouTube.

[sparkypeter]

never mind in 25 years....it already is!!

[TheMovieMaker123]

i got this of record :)

[StarGirlRikku]

Out of all the songs in my many wise years of living that has to be best one so far =D XD lol lmao

[mrskiedis123]

havent heard this since i was a kid! my dad had it on record

[manxink]

Laughed me left sock off.

Thanks for putting this on :-)

[djmlloyd]

The BEST version of this song I've ever heard!

[katecakex]

Fond memories of watching Noel and Brillo et al in The Half Moon in Putney three decades ago!

[DJKINKYB]

love it

[fraya1400]

This took me flying fondly back to my childhood when this was told me as 'The Bricklayers Labourer.

Thanx so much 4 sharing :o)

Fraya 1400

[ivanovitch57]

hoffnung perfomed it at the oxford union in 1958, it's still available!

[edgehog1994]

Oompa, Loompa, doom-pa-dee-do

I have a perfect puzzle for you

Oompa, Loompa, doom-pa-dee-dee

If you are wise, you'll listen to me

Why?

ANSWER ME.

[conniff44]

Ok - Why?

[Zahrim969]

Right song, wrong video.

[conniff44]

I know that. We all have to start somewhere, it is the song that counts.

[solcito138]

Muy hermoso gracias por compartirlo Un beso de Sol

[conniff44]

Soy tan por favor que usted disfrutó de ello.

[raymondcrooke]

Like grannybuttons, I first heard this story told by Gerard Hoffnung. I believe it goes back further though. Pat Cooksey certainly did a great job of turning it into a song.

[67nunky]

Cracking stuff.

Heard this first time on a BBC Radio York show called Hurley Burley some years back. Sadly its host, Mike Hurley, is no longer with us, but I'll always be grateful to him for introducing me to this absolute gem.

[winston5610]

I have heard an earlier spoken prose version related by Gerard Hoffnung, but I think the origin of the story is lost in the mists of time,

[isthatmusicicanhear2]

★★★★★ AWESOME '' ISSY

[Makeshiftelf]

lol you said it \m/

[ulula19]

LOL !!

Morphy is not at work today!!!

[larosity]

Very funny and well sung! Great share James!

[gugulia]

vay...big jan, this is a real gem...;)) and wonderful, reserved performance...how could he stay so 'pulled together' while singing this?... many thanks to conniff to upload it and bigeezy who shared...five soft bricks to this...;)) *****

[pyromanic78]

fantastic.  cheers bigeeezy

[valadga]

great  song and thankyou for share James.

[grannybuttons]

Why doesn't anyone mention Gerard Hoffnung? The greatest (probably the original, in 1954) teller of this tale.

[ChibiBarako]

Wretched Yank, keep your politics out of an Irish song!

[Makeshiftelf]

lol love this song been looking for it for ages thanks for the upload

[Noobleton1]

Lol.

[AkkiTtsu]

first I just knew this song as a poem and at school we had to make music.... I didn' t know that it really is so funny- the music... and the text of course IS funny. well, I really composed the opposite xD

but I love it <3 just the pictures are a bit senseless ^^

[demarung]

This song is brilliant, so many versions worldwide, a real classic, well done Mr. Cooksey.

[henritje19]

wasnt tis story on Mythbusters once?

[youtobeee]

where can i get just this version?

[rrfsee]

i had this on vynall many years ago its Noel Murphy the l.p. was called nhyyaaa or something close to that i am sure it was on T.R.A. Folk music lable. BEST OF LUCK

[PMaddict]

I love silly songs and this one is great.

[TSRule]

I love this song. Dad recorded it from the radio years ago and we used to listen to it when I was little.

[squidgeyalan]

ok my good friend carl passed away last week and we played this at his funeral today...as you can imagine it was a celebration of his life ...he was a humourous guy

[speedfreak112]

grrrrrrrrrrrrreat song!

[livverdick]

haha funni sony xD

[DizzyBeryl]

lol this song is good

[flickjinx]

Does anyone know where I can get just the song so I can put it on my phone?

[jackchisel]

Hiya flickjinx, if you've got bluetooth, you can

email the vid to yourself and download it to your phone. hope it works for you, regards.... jackchisel

[rokinbenji05]

once i have emailed it to myself how do you download it to my phone

[jackchisel]

Hi rokinbeni05. If you have bluetooth facility on your phone, follow the instructions in your phone manual. you will also need a bluetooth 'dongle' to send the music to your phone.you can buy these from any pc store, thats a little gadget that fits into your pc usb port. sorry i cant help you further than that so good luck with it.......jackchisel

[rokinbenji05]

thanks jackchisel for your help.

[demarung]

Heard it on Paddy's day on CNN, Brilliant.

[butterflieke]

i love irish humor xD

xxx

[AnnieAstrid]

Hilarious, thanks for the giggles.

[demarung]

Today 12.15 BBC 2, brilliant, one of the best versions of this song worldwide. I also like the Dubliners version but I think on this song Mr Murphy, whoever he is, does it best.

[TownCoote]

Did you get the Sean Cannon (Dubliners) version of this removed?

[conniff44]

I haven't (and couldn't) have any influence on the removal of anything, I am just a normal YouTube user.

[juneyjuney]

So funny loved it

[bennadict]

BRILL. I cant get it out of my head, thanks. It's a great song. Real funny.

[DCLeadboot]

This is a classic! We still hear it on the radio these days!

It's a scream!

[demarung]

Brilliant song, the Dubliners also do justice to it, love it.

[this0033]

You can download anything from youtube by first downloading video downloader. This cost me six pounds to download but I've downloaded hundreds of videos from here since

[rokinbenji05]

thanks for that.