[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:09.40]Dear Sir  I write this note to you [00:11.96]To tell you of me plight [00:14.17]And at the time of writing [00:15.96]I am not a pretty sight; [00:17.97]My body is all black and blue [00:20.24]My face a deathly gray [00:22.87]And I write this note to say [00:25.28]Why Paddy's not at work today [00:28.71]While working on the fourteenth floor [00:31.14]Some bricks I had to clear; [00:33.41]Now  to throw them down from [00:34.55]Such a height was not a good idea [00:37.54]The foreman wasn't very pleased [00:39.73]He beeing an awkward sod [00:41.81]He said I'd have to cart them down [00:43.79]The ladders in me hod [00:46.12]Now  clearing all these bricks [00:48.54]By hand it was so very slow [00:51.17]So I hoisted up a barrel [00:53.12]And secured the rope below [00:55.88]But in me haste to do the job [00:58.24]I was to blind to see [01:00.88]That a barrelful of building bricks [01:02.79]Was heavier than me [01:06.00]So when I untied the rope [01:07.84]The barrel fell like lead [01:09.86]And clinging tightly to the rope [01:11.85]I started up instead [01:14.22]Well  I shot up like a rocket [01:16.45]Till to my dismay I found [01:19.50]That halfway up [01:20.84]I met the bloody barrel comming down [01:24.63]Well  the barrel broke me shoulder [01:26.34]As to the ground it sped [01:28.85]And when I reached the top [01:30.55]I banged the pully with my head [01:33.29]Well  I clung on tight through numbed [01:35.42]Shock from this almighty blow [01:38.30]And the barrel spilled out half [01:39.97]The bricks fourteen floors below [01:43.14]Now  when these bricks had fallen [01:45.53]From the barrel to the floor [01:48.14]I then outweighed the barrel and [01:50.78]So started down once more; [01:53.17]Still clinging tightly to the rope [01:55.24]I sped towards the ground [01:57.63]And I landed on the brocken bricks [01:59.91]That were all scattered round [02:02.28]Well  I lay there groaning on the ground [02:05.96]I thougth I'd passed the worst [02:08.37]When the barrel hit the pully-wheel [02:10.50]And then the bottom burst [02:12.72]Well  a shower of bricks rained down on me [02:15.67]I hadn't got a hope [02:17.69]As I lay there moaning on the ground [02:21.08]I let go of the bloody rope [02:24.50]The barrel than being heavier [02:26.42]It started down once more [02:28.95]And landed right across me [02:30.99]As I lay upon the floor [02:34.11]Well  it broke three ribs [02:35.77]And my left arm and I can only say [02:40.05]That I hope you'll understand [02:42.48]Why Paddy's not at work today