Posted by John Wilson on May 24, 2004 at 08:41:31 from 202.154.157.202 user hugo.
In Reply to: Flying foxes, skips, and barrels posted by Mike Field on May 24, 2004 at 01:40:36:
Pat Cooksley claims copyright of the actual words from a performance in Coventry in 1969, and gives the original title as “The Sick Note” with alternative titles:
“Why Paddy’s not at work today”
“Murphy and the Bricks” (not with an apostrophe Brick’s!!) etc also
“Mitch’s Masonry Theme Song”
He says that the original theme/story goes back beyond Gerald Hoffnung’s performance to the Oxford Union in 1958; and as far back as the 1920s & 1930s.