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GUEST,Stan Wallace.	Sick Note/Bricklayer/ Proved!! (76* d)	RE: Sick Note/Bricklayer/ Proved!!	22 Feb 04
I spoke to Pat Cooksey in Ireland some years ago and told him that Murphy was taking all the credit for the song. Pat already knew this, he told me Murphy begged him for the words, and as they were friends at the time Pat was happy to give them to him. Pat Cooksey at this time was busking for a living in Waterford and Kilkenny while Noel Murphy was making a tidy sum from Pat's song. The English Folk scene for many years accepted without question Murphy's false claim to the song, and as far as I know still do. Anyone who knows Noel Murphy, as I do, knows he would never have been capable of writing such a classic.

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