The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #47508 Message #1303653
Posted By: Mark Cohen
22-Oct-04 - 04:38 AM
Thread Name: Origins: the sick note/ murphy and the bricks
Subject: RE: Origins: the sick note/ murphy and the bricks
I was about to add to your list of titles for the song by including the title "The Bricklayer's Sad Lamentation," which was how I learned it from David Ingerson in Portland in 1983; he'd learned it in Ireland from Seamus McMathuna. Then in going through this thread (in response to yet another inquiry about the song), I see that David already posted that information last year. Time, it is a precious thing...