The first time I heard this, I was very pregnant with my youngest. I was laughing so hard I was in tears. We were at a family reunion, and I know everyone was watching me. I absolutely love this song!!
I've spent the night celebrating the genius of Shane MacGowan, hours of music which eventually led to Poor Paddy On The Railway, which then reminded me of this absolute beauty. The biggest smile hearing this again, and I don't think Shane would be jealous to know that I'm now having thus on repeat till sunrise 😄 God bless the poets, rebels, patriots and beautiful souls of Eire.
I miss to see Dubliners live. I heard this every year on my birthday. I will carry them and their awesome music in my heart as long as I live! 😍😍😍🇮🇪💚☘☘☘☘☘💚🇮🇪
Having had to recover from being hit by a car and going through rehabilitation for the leg injury that ensued this song was a blessed beacon of laughter and hope in those dark days to any and all suffering and or recovering from a life changing injury my love and prayers are with you and let this song be a bit of dark comedy when you need that Celtic kick
I learned this song when I was only three thanks to an old cassette tape. Nearly twenty years on, I've sang it all over the world including Shanghai, Lanzarote, Birmingham, Dublin, and Trafalgar Square. Sometimes during a drinking session with friends or at proper concerts. Either way, nothing beats hearing the roaring laughter from the audiences.
Rex Banner Oh yes, me too! I did the same. I am German and I sang this and the song of South Australia (...two old women laying in the sand...each one wishing that the other was a man...😂😂😂) and in German language, if you learn this maybe one day, Georg Kreisler. He was a very poplular songwriter from Vienna who was a godfather of black humor and sarcasm and his songs upset tge establishment feom the early 60s for a long time.
@@katievonolendorp5894 I tried to find the Australian song as it sounds very funny too, it's not on UA-cam as far as I can see? Any chance you could put it on here??? :)
My folks took me to see them about 30 years ago in Wash DC, and we bought a cassette at the show and it had this on it. Used to play it all the time. Such a great song in every way
I am phoning in sick from UA-cam job today. 🤕 I think it's full moon is making me overly emotional. 💕 So I think it's best to do prayers 🙏 Alone until I get my act together again. 🙏 Thank You Jesus. 💖 I love you. 🙏
Dear Sir, I write this note to you to tell you of me plight and at the time of writing, I am not a pretty sight; me body is all black and blue, me face a deathly gray and I write this note to say why Paddy's not at work today. While working on the fourteenth floor some bricks I had to clear; now, to throw them down from such a height was not a good idea. The foreman wasn't very pleased, he being an awkward sod he said I'd have to cart them down the ladders in me hod. Now, clearing all these bricks by hand it was so very slow, so I hoisted up a barrel and secured the rope below. But in me haste to do the job I was to blind to see that a barrelful of building bricks was heavier than me. So when I untied the rope the barrel fell like lead and clinging tightly to the rope I started up instead. Well, I shot up like a rocket till to my dismay I found that halfway up I met the bloody barrel coming down. Well, the barrel broke me shoulder as to the ground it sped, and when I reached the top I banged the pulley with my head. Well, I clung on tight through numbed shock from this almighty blow and the barrel spilled out half the bricks fourteen floors below. Now, when these bricks had fallen from the barrel to the floor I then outweighed the barrel and so started down once more; still clinging tightly to the rope, I sped towards the ground, and I landed on the broken bricks that were all scattered round. Well, I lay there groaning on the ground, I though I'd passed the worst, when the barrel hit the pulley-wheel and then the bottom burst. Well, a shower of bricks rained down on me, I hadn't got a hope as I lay there moaning on the ground, I let go of the bloody rope. The barrel than being heavier, it started down once more, and landed right across me, as I lay upon the floor. Well, it broke three ribs and my left arm and I can only say that I hope you'll understand why Paddy's not a work today.
The same story also occurs in a swiss childrensbook from the 50's, I wonder was it an Irish story first or was it in the book first. Does someone know. The book is called "Mein Name ist Eugen" and it was written in 1955
How exactly would his boss not know this already? He said the foreman was there when it happened, Lol!! Isn't it the foreman's job to report to the boss? I guess he don't have much competition at work. His job will be there when he recovers.
+Isiah Oswell Yes, the singer is paddy. Paddy is a stereotypical name for an Irishman and can be singular (as in this this song) or plural to refer to Irishmen in a humorous way.
How did Mythbusters not reference this song when they did their "Barrel of Bricks" myth that was re-creating the exact scenario from this song? Also, we all long for those days before OSHA, before workers' rights, before unions, before labor laws, a wonderful time when bosses would actually grant an employee a day off for being basically destroyed - my bosses at Domino's a few years ago sure wouldn't! Not without a doctor's note that is impossible to get short notice and costs six months worth of pay, and even when I brought them one they still didn't want to give me time off because it wasn't formatted right or something.
I mean, all of those things started and formed because bosses weren't "actually granting an employee a day off for being basically destroyed". You think that these things poofed into existence for no reason? Don't be daft. These things came to exist because there were real issues which needed sorting and resolving. And you blame, of all things, the very things which provide you some level of legal protection? You honestly think that things would be better, not worse, if they didn't exist? I am sorry, but no. You don't obtain more rights by giving up your rights and your ability to defend yourself as required. These things are not to blame for your poor treatment.
@@hellraiser217 I'm not blaming those things, I'm making a sarcastic comment about how, despite these worker protections, especially in the US workers still get shat upon. Laws have come about to protect workers, but all the while, past couple decades and since the recession especially, employers have become more and more ruthless in their treatment of workers to squeeze every last cent of profit out of them. In many cases finding devious ways of skirting around or finding loopholes in the laws, like having "part-time" workers work 39 hours per week so they're not required to give them benefits, paying them a legally-mandated but still not livable minimum wage, requiring doctors notes that employees have no feasible way of getting for (unpaid) sick days, requiring employees to come in short notice on what were supposed to be their days off, and so on. These labor laws are absolutely necessary, but in this day and age aren't good enough, haven't adapted for the current ways employers exploit their workers.
We played this at my uncle Paddy’s funeral, he was famously workshy, and it brought the house down. Not a dry eye in the place. From laughter.
That's how I'd want mine to go, make it a gathering to enjoy and have a blast. Put the Fun in Funeral!
Thats how funerals should go. Laughter and celebration of life.
God rest yer uncle!!
This is how they teach kids about gravity in Ireland.
He got a letter back saying "You're coming in to work tomorrow though right?"
The first time I heard this, I was very pregnant with my youngest. I was laughing so hard I was in tears. We were at a family reunion, and I know everyone was watching me. I absolutely love this song!!
His voice is frickin' beautiful, which somehow makes it funnier.
I've spent the night celebrating the genius of Shane MacGowan, hours of music which eventually led to Poor Paddy On The Railway, which then reminded me of this absolute beauty.
The biggest smile hearing this again, and I don't think Shane would be jealous to know that I'm now having thus on repeat till sunrise 😄
God bless the poets, rebels, patriots and beautiful souls of Eire.
14 floors. Hes lucky to be alive! Love this song!
I bet he didn't feel lucky as he lay there lol
God I love the sick note, but what just gets me is the pause when he calls the foreman an awkward.......sod
whats a sod
A nicer way to say asshole
@George Dunn I don't think they know
@@am1604 I do now XD
@@thatoneguy-lk5nc an alcoholic
How do you not laugh at this? I love the sick note
I know. I laughed a lot
this is so funny
TinyBoxTim! What are you doing here? LoL :D
I miss to see Dubliners live. I heard this every year on my birthday. I will carry them and their awesome music in my heart as long as I live! 😍😍😍🇮🇪💚☘☘☘☘☘💚🇮🇪
Hahahaha poor Patrick he got an accident at work in a time where there wasn't work accident insurance.
Bosses be like, "Ok, so I'll see you in 10 minuets, right?" fml lol
"Alright Paddy, get a good night's sleep. I'll see you bright and early tomorra'!"
And Paddy says "no bother boss be there in the mornin hi" cos we're hard as fuck 😂😂😂🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Shit....you work where I do....lol
Awesome kell
No matter what this song always makes me laugh and the day go better.
I heard this at work and it made my day, I was laughing for hours.
I have loved this ever since I first heard it its so well sung and wrote and its funny just brilliant
A classic. Good to hear again. Thanks for sending.
Could not stop laughing the first time I heard this
me too lmao I needed this this is what youtubes for i never heard this until today
Well, at least he didn't collide with the barrel on its way up, must be this fabled luck of the Irish I've heard so much about.🙂
Having had to recover from being hit by a car and going through rehabilitation for the leg injury that ensued this song was a blessed beacon of laughter and hope in those dark days to any and all suffering and or recovering from a life changing injury my love and prayers are with you and let this song be a bit of dark comedy when you need that Celtic kick
I learned this song when I was only three thanks to an old cassette tape. Nearly twenty years on, I've sang it all over the world including Shanghai, Lanzarote, Birmingham, Dublin, and Trafalgar Square. Sometimes during a drinking session with friends or at proper concerts. Either way, nothing beats hearing the roaring laughter from the audiences.
Rex Banner Oh yes, me too! I did the same. I am German and I sang this and the song of South Australia (...two old women laying in the sand...each one wishing that the other was a man...😂😂😂) and in German language, if you learn this maybe one day, Georg Kreisler. He was a very poplular songwriter from Vienna who was a godfather of black humor and sarcasm and his songs upset tge establishment feom the early 60s for a long time.
I think I've sang it with you my friend. . Great time. ..more to come. . God bless
@@katievonolendorp5894 I tried to find the Australian song as it sounds very funny too, it's not on UA-cam as far as I can see? Any chance you could put it on here??? :)
@@jesshothersall ua-cam.com/video/mWimttKwHY0/v-deo.html
This is the South Australia song
When I was young, a popular New Zealand radio station used to play a cover of that song every morning. It is etched permanently into my memory.
This song reminds me of an Irish version of Looney Tunes
It's actually a Scottish song by the corries
Ye
Irish humour at its best xD
Borrow a song from Scotland
Great job paddy 👍🤗
Paddy was deemed “fit to work” by the DWP
What is DWP?
I love this! It's a musical setting of Gerard Hoffnung's Oxford Union story from 1958. Brilliant.
@ Michael Holker Hi Mike, it's also very similar to the start of the movie, Babe Pig in the City. Farmer Hogget in the water well ect.
There’s a version that was published in a joke book in 1918 as well. Mythbusters even proved it was plausible!😂
apparently this song is so popular that mythbusters actually did a show on it. pretty funny song.
You know, until I looked up other covers of this song, I didn't even realize that this version is acapella.
Thanks man, I was having a rough day and this cheered me up.
Paddy gave OSHA a bloody fit I'm sure!! Reminds me of something Buster(I Do All My Own Stunts and Never Yell CUT :D )Keaton would do!!
My folks took me to see them about 30 years ago in Wash DC, and we bought a cassette at the show and it had this on it. Used to play it all the time. Such a great song in every way
Love it ❤ This never gets old 😌😄
Irish wit at its best!
Only our rivers
1:02 And I love you, random citizen!
I am phoning in sick from UA-cam job today. 🤕
I think it's full moon is making me overly emotional. 💕
So I think it's best to do prayers 🙏
Alone until I get my act together again. 🙏
Thank You Jesus. 💖
I love you. 🙏
My Mother Lord have Mercy on her Soul! Used to call this type of behavior, the lazy man's Load 😀🙏🏻✝️❤️
When I call in sick at work.
I laugh every single time. I love the animation too.
dieser Moment wenn dein Lehrer plötzlich erzählt das er ein Sänger in eine Band war 😂 das war einfach die Geschichte von meinem Lehrer 😂
Love this song!
Always loved this
Brilliant song the best ever
About laughed meself into a wooden onesie
Omg, this just cleared my chest congestion.
A gem of humour and Paddy singing!
I'm learning this song to sign .for me mother in memory of her brother Paddy.....gas man he was
Fergal Murphy if you have finished it I would love to see this one in sign language
drackudoomrunner hey buddy
I think this is a typo as it should say sing instead of sign
Fergal Murphy ah well guess I'll just have to learn it in sign lol
drackudoomrunner looks like it pal....I'd a good laugh off it too when I read it 😉
Fergal Murphy Did she like it? I think she loves it, right?🇮🇪☘💚
Absolutely brilliant
Talk about some serious bad luck! lol
Myth Busters varified this is possible.
I love this song. So clever.
Perfect storytelling
Thank you so so much for this video!
Awesome, just awesome.
This is the true luck of the Irish 😂
Dear Sir, I write this note to you to tell you of me plight
and at the time of writing, I am not a pretty sight;
me body is all black and blue, me face a deathly gray
and I write this note to say why Paddy's not at work today.
While working on the fourteenth floor some bricks I had to clear;
now, to throw them down from such a height was not a good idea.
The foreman wasn't very pleased, he being an awkward sod
he said I'd have to cart them down the ladders in me hod.
Now, clearing all these bricks by hand it was so very slow,
so I hoisted up a barrel and secured the rope below.
But in me haste to do the job I was to blind to see
that a barrelful of building bricks was heavier than me.
So when I untied the rope the barrel fell like lead
and clinging tightly to the rope I started up instead.
Well, I shot up like a rocket till to my dismay I found
that halfway up I met the bloody barrel coming down.
Well, the barrel broke me shoulder as to the ground it sped,
and when I reached the top I banged the pulley with my head.
Well, I clung on tight through numbed shock from this almighty blow
and the barrel spilled out half the bricks fourteen floors below.
Now, when these bricks had fallen from the barrel to the floor
I then outweighed the barrel and so started down once more;
still clinging tightly to the rope, I sped towards the ground,
and I landed on the broken bricks that were all scattered round.
Well, I lay there groaning on the ground, I though I'd passed the worst,
when the barrel hit the pulley-wheel and then the bottom burst.
Well, a shower of bricks rained down on me, I hadn't got a hope
as I lay there moaning on the ground, I let go of the bloody rope.
The barrel than being heavier, it started down once more,
and landed right across me, as I lay upon the floor.
Well, it broke three ribs and my left arm and I can only say
that I hope you'll understand why Paddy's not a work today.
I love this song
Love it, sounds the sorta thing I would do
Just try writing up a compensation claim for that! :) :) :)
Sounds like a true story.. Every word.
Definitely has the luck of the Irish.
Bossman would say "here now paddy u can't miss another days work "
Beautiful
It’s such a clever song.
ahh persimmons building site lol
Me lyin to my mom trying to skip school
I wanna watch this as a sketch
I first heard this in my construction safety course for what not to do
I'm quite proud to be able to sing this without laughing. Took some time.
now that is a hell of a skill 🥰🤩🤩🤩
I could picture this happening to me 😂
The same story also occurs in a swiss childrensbook from the 50's, I wonder was it an Irish story first or was it in the book first. Does someone know. The book is called "Mein Name ist Eugen" and it was written in 1955
Just like a true Irishman
My dad led me here and I am not disappointed
I find it really hard whenever I hear this it was one of grandpas funeral songs 💔😭 I like to listen to it because it reminds me of though
How exactly would his boss not know this already? He said the foreman was there when it happened, Lol!! Isn't it the foreman's job to report to the boss? I guess he don't have much competition at work. His job will be there when he recovers.
Have another drink, you’re thinking too much.
Best verison
My life
Same
Poor you... come here and get a hug! 💚🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀💚
More like my luck
My mom always sings thisss :D
Sing this without laughing challenge
Ah for fuck sake Paddy!
Damn that's funny
The was me I am paddy 😂😂😂
❤😂❤😂❤😂❤
Same here
It sounds like Auld Alarm Click.
We all be Paddy at one time or another?
Bill Elliott or most of the time at all
The original was by Gerald Hoffnung, by far the best.
Would it kill ya to lay the lyrics out appropriately? Fuck, I'm Irish. I'm too drunk to figure out where the pauses go when singing along.
When you walk
Happy St. Patty's day 🍻🍻🍻
He left out the part where he would have broken his ankles on the barrel as he came down and it came up.
funny song
There's a spanish version and it is amazing too
The only thing that would make this video better is they make a good quality
Hahaha
Any idea who wrote it?
😂😂😂😂😂
I laughed so hard at this😂😂. But I have a question is he paddy or not im confused is he talking in third person?
+Isiah Oswell Yes, the singer is paddy. Paddy is a stereotypical name for an Irishman and can be singular (as in this this song) or plural to refer to Irishmen in a humorous way.
+Jonathan Nutt okay thanks for clearing that up
Oh, God, no. Paddy is his imaginary friend.
How did Mythbusters not reference this song when they did their "Barrel of Bricks" myth that was re-creating the exact scenario from this song? Also, we all long for those days before OSHA, before workers' rights, before unions, before labor laws, a wonderful time when bosses would actually grant an employee a day off for being basically destroyed - my bosses at Domino's a few years ago sure wouldn't! Not without a doctor's note that is impossible to get short notice and costs six months worth of pay, and even when I brought them one they still didn't want to give me time off because it wasn't formatted right or something.
I mean, all of those things started and formed because bosses weren't "actually granting an employee a day off for being basically destroyed". You think that these things poofed into existence for no reason? Don't be daft. These things came to exist because there were real issues which needed sorting and resolving. And you blame, of all things, the very things which provide you some level of legal protection? You honestly think that things would be better, not worse, if they didn't exist? I am sorry, but no. You don't obtain more rights by giving up your rights and your ability to defend yourself as required. These things are not to blame for your poor treatment.
@@hellraiser217 I'm not blaming those things, I'm making a sarcastic comment about how, despite these worker protections, especially in the US workers still get shat upon. Laws have come about to protect workers, but all the while, past couple decades and since the recession especially, employers have become more and more ruthless in their treatment of workers to squeeze every last cent of profit out of them. In many cases finding devious ways of skirting around or finding loopholes in the laws, like having "part-time" workers work 39 hours per week so they're not required to give them benefits, paying them a legally-mandated but still not livable minimum wage, requiring doctors notes that employees have no feasible way of getting for (unpaid) sick days, requiring employees to come in short notice on what were supposed to be their days off, and so on. These labor laws are absolutely necessary, but in this day and age aren't good enough, haven't adapted for the current ways employers exploit their workers.
Mother
i am
hahahahahahah
😅
🤣🤣🤣
Who is singing this?
How did paddy not die