《The Sick Note》歌词

[00:00:00] The Sick Note - The Dubliners/Ronnie Drew

[00:00:00] Dear Sir I write this note to you

[00:00:03] To tell you of me plight

[00:00:05] And at the time of writing

[00:00:06] I am not a pretty sight;

[00:00:09] My body is all black and blue

[00:00:11] My face a deathly gray

[00:00:13] And I write this note to say

[00:00:16] Why Paddy's not at work today

[00:00:19] While working on the fourteenth floor

[00:00:22] Some bricks I had to clear;

[00:00:24] Now to throw them down from

[00:00:25] Such a height was not a good idea

[00:00:28] The foreman wasn't very pleased

[00:00:30] He beeing an awkward sod

[00:00:32] He said I'd have to cart them down

[00:00:34] The ladders in me hod

[00:00:37] Now clearing all these bricks

[00:00:39] By hand it was so very slow

[00:00:42] So I hoisted up a barrel

[00:00:44] And secured the rope below

[00:00:46] But in me haste to do the job

[00:00:49] I was to blind to see

[00:00:52] That a barrelful of building bricks

[00:00:54] Was heavier than me

[00:00:57] So when I untied the rope

[00:00:58] The barrel fell like lead

[00:01:00] And clinging tightly to the rope

[00:01:03] I started up instead

[00:01:05] Well I shot up like a rocket

[00:01:07] Till to my dismay I found

[00:01:10] That halfway up

[00:01:11] I met the bloody barrel comming down

[00:01:15] Well the barrel broke me shoulder

[00:01:17] As to the ground it sped

[00:01:19] And when I reached the top

[00:01:21] I banged the pully with my head

[00:01:24] Well I clung on tight through numbed

[00:01:26] Shock from this almighty blow

[00:01:29] And the barrel spilled out half

[00:01:31] The bricks fourteen floors below

[00:01:34] Now when these bricks had fallen

[00:01:36] From the barrel to the floor

[00:01:39] I then outweighed the barrel and

[00:01:41] So started down once more;

[00:01:44] Still clinging tightly to the rope

[00:01:46] I sped towards the ground

[00:01:48] And I landed on the brocken bricks

[00:01:50] That were all scattered round

[00:01:53] Well I lay there groaning on the ground

[00:01:56] I thougth I'd passed the worst

[00:01:59] When the barrel hit the pully-wheel

[00:02:01] And then the bottom burst

[00:02:03] Well a shower of bricks rained down on me

[00:02:06] I hadn't got a hope

[00:02:08] As I lay there moaning on the ground

[00:02:12] I let go of the bloody rope

[00:02:15] The barrel than being heavier

[00:02:17] It started down once more

[00:02:19] And landed right across me

[00:02:21] As I lay upon the floor

[00:02:24] Well it broke three ribs

[00:02:26] And my left arm and I can only say

[00:02:31] That I hope you'll understand

[00:02:33] Why Paddy's not a work today