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.
@jamesperkins17242 жыл бұрын
That's how I'd want mine to go, make it a gathering to enjoy and have a blast. Put the Fun in Funeral!
@KittenBlackheart Жыл бұрын
Thats how funerals should go. Laughter and celebration of life.
@garrymcfadden4105 Жыл бұрын
God rest yer uncle!!
@dragnslayr5022 жыл бұрын
This is how they teach kids about gravity in Ireland.
@IamHeemsah6 жыл бұрын
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!!
@OrangeyChocolate4 жыл бұрын
His voice is frickin' beautiful, which somehow makes it funnier.
@TheBigBadBeowulf6 жыл бұрын
He got a letter back saying "You're coming in to work tomorrow though right?"
@hutchyegb54238 ай бұрын
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.
@kelliebelmedioni70748 жыл бұрын
Bosses be like, "Ok, so I'll see you in 10 minuets, right?" fml lol
@Edited67 жыл бұрын
"Alright Paddy, get a good night's sleep. I'll see you bright and early tomorra'!"
@Shadyganleymawn4 жыл бұрын
And Paddy says "no bother boss be there in the mornin hi" cos we're hard as fuck 😂😂😂🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
@raverbaby5513 жыл бұрын
Shit....you work where I do....lol
@leetushingham52773 жыл бұрын
Awesome kell
@OrdoBarabas7 жыл бұрын
God I love the sick note, but what just gets me is the pause when he calls the foreman an awkward.......sod
@thatoneguy-lk5nc6 жыл бұрын
whats a sod
@Mr.Sparks.1736 жыл бұрын
A nicer way to say asshole
@am16044 жыл бұрын
@George Dunn I don't think they know
@dariusstarrett88373 жыл бұрын
@@am1604 I do now XD
@moblinmajorgeneral3 жыл бұрын
@@thatoneguy-lk5nc an alcoholic
@feudaltrinity78319 жыл бұрын
How do you not laugh at this? I love the sick note
@theveiledlady81568 жыл бұрын
I know. I laughed a lot
@courtneysteward50266 жыл бұрын
this is so funny
@wingedhybrid166 жыл бұрын
TinyBoxTim! What are you doing here? LoL :D
@katievonolendorp58946 жыл бұрын
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! 😍😍😍🇮🇪💚☘☘☘☘☘💚🇮🇪
@oliverf.685 жыл бұрын
Hahahaha poor Patrick he got an accident at work in a time where there wasn't work accident insurance.
@mikeconner36844 жыл бұрын
14 floors. Hes lucky to be alive! Love this song!
@alanaspinall7147 Жыл бұрын
I bet he didn't feel lucky as he lay there lol
@shane4705 Жыл бұрын
No matter what this song always makes me laugh and the day go better.
@rexbanner46886 жыл бұрын
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.
@katievonolendorp58946 жыл бұрын
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.
@danielkelly51125 жыл бұрын
I think I've sang it with you my friend. . Great time. ..more to come. . God bless
@jesshothersall4 жыл бұрын
@@katievonolendorp5894 I tried to find the Australian song as it sounds very funny too, it's not on KZbin as far as I can see? Any chance you could put it on here??? :)
@seanmcdermott25514 жыл бұрын
@@jesshothersall kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4jMnqeqgNx7j5I This is the South Australia song
@BrendonGreenNZL2 жыл бұрын
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.
@pLaIrVaIdNoGx8 жыл бұрын
I heard this at work and it made my day, I was laughing for hours.
@zebpischnotte16943 жыл бұрын
A classic. Good to hear again. Thanks for sending.
@ohiofisherofmen21946 жыл бұрын
This song reminds me of an Irish version of Looney Tunes
@amsodoneworkingnow19783 жыл бұрын
It's actually a Scottish song by the corries
@Plagolago643 жыл бұрын
Ye
@terryroberts53094 жыл бұрын
I have loved this ever since I first heard it its so well sung and wrote and its funny just brilliant
@ralphremo24064 жыл бұрын
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
@trevorbesse88409 жыл бұрын
Could not stop laughing the first time I heard this
@creepyunkle9083 жыл бұрын
me too lmao I needed this this is what youtubes for i never heard this until today
@mace88732 жыл бұрын
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.🙂
@AnikaJarlsdottr7 жыл бұрын
Irish humour at its best xD
@amsodoneworkingnow19783 жыл бұрын
Borrow a song from Scotland
@2W0PQU-Ethan4 жыл бұрын
Paddy was deemed “fit to work” by the DWP
@seanhartnett792 жыл бұрын
What is DWP?
@stokermeister34 жыл бұрын
Great job paddy 👍🤗
@Spears2119 жыл бұрын
Thanks man, I was having a rough day and this cheered me up.
@ShayMcSudonim9 жыл бұрын
You know, until I looked up other covers of this song, I didn't even realize that this version is acapella.
@Cuthbert256 жыл бұрын
I love this! It's a musical setting of Gerard Hoffnung's Oxford Union story from 1958. Brilliant.
@terryhiggins9700 Жыл бұрын
@ 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.
@Robynhoodlum Жыл бұрын
There’s a version that was published in a joke book in 1918 as well. Mythbusters even proved it was plausible!😂
@famfamfam578210 ай бұрын
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
@beccawilson13682 жыл бұрын
apparently this song is so popular that mythbusters actually did a show on it. pretty funny song.
@waynejones2056 жыл бұрын
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!!
@aerocard48315 жыл бұрын
When I call in sick at work.
@lucianacorrea12533 жыл бұрын
I laugh every single time. I love the animation too.
@strikelighting Жыл бұрын
1:02 And I love you, random citizen!
@fatmagaeb88735 жыл бұрын
dieser Moment wenn dein Lehrer plötzlich erzählt das er ein Sänger in eine Band war 😂 das war einfach die Geschichte von meinem Lehrer 😂
@stevenmccallan92027 жыл бұрын
Irish wit at its best!
@niallfahy90695 жыл бұрын
Only our rivers
@NICEFINENEWROBOT2 жыл бұрын
A gem of humour and Paddy singing!
@dominikpokorny4 ай бұрын
Love it ❤ This never gets old 😌😄
@colmmurphy92933 жыл бұрын
Brilliant song the best ever
@user-kw1hx4sx3l4 ай бұрын
Always loved this
@HassanCodA-Xod8hm.10 ай бұрын
I am phoning in sick from KZbin 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. 🙏
@furrgal7 жыл бұрын
I'm learning this song to sign .for me mother in memory of her brother Paddy.....gas man he was
@drackudoomrunner7 жыл бұрын
Fergal Murphy if you have finished it I would love to see this one in sign language
@furrgal6 жыл бұрын
drackudoomrunner hey buddy I think this is a typo as it should say sing instead of sign
@drackudoomrunner6 жыл бұрын
Fergal Murphy ah well guess I'll just have to learn it in sign lol
@furrgal6 жыл бұрын
drackudoomrunner looks like it pal....I'd a good laugh off it too when I read it 😉
@katievonolendorp58946 жыл бұрын
Fergal Murphy Did she like it? I think she loves it, right?🇮🇪☘💚
@kevinmcgaughey82476 жыл бұрын
About laughed meself into a wooden onesie
@subject_phoenix40434 жыл бұрын
Omg, this just cleared my chest congestion.
@AmethystRaven Жыл бұрын
This is the true luck of the Irish 😂
@kaisle84125 жыл бұрын
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.
@johnnyrabbitslaughing57614 жыл бұрын
Love this song!
@cezarrogeriodemourafelippe14423 жыл бұрын
Perfect storytelling
@joshuanethaway4914 жыл бұрын
Myth Busters varified this is possible.
@jennistone27302 жыл бұрын
Absolutely brilliant
@JohnMac2023A.D.10 ай бұрын
My Mother Lord have Mercy on her Soul! Used to call this type of behavior, the lazy man's Load 😀🙏🏻✝️❤️
@jayfredrickson86325 жыл бұрын
Definitely has the luck of the Irish.
@konstantineguruli8 жыл бұрын
Thank you so so much for this video!
@dylanrockett4 жыл бұрын
Bossman would say "here now paddy u can't miss another days work "
@jimwilliams15362 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a true story.. Every word.
@rosscollingwood51896 жыл бұрын
Just try writing up a compensation claim for that! :) :) :)
@jmoons37134 жыл бұрын
Love it, sounds the sorta thing I would do
@stevemurph16 ай бұрын
I love this song. So clever.
@lonewolf93908 жыл бұрын
Talk about some serious bad luck! lol
@hvb91235 жыл бұрын
Awesome, just awesome.
@conroychannel41804 жыл бұрын
I love this song
@MorgaineRiddlePrince3 жыл бұрын
I wanna watch this as a sketch
@che71che2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful
@jsbach3474 жыл бұрын
Me lyin to my mom trying to skip school
@hernehaugen68783 жыл бұрын
I'm quite proud to be able to sing this without laughing. Took some time.
@piros100 Жыл бұрын
now that is a hell of a skill 🥰🤩🤩🤩
@rodstewartjolly25496 жыл бұрын
ahh persimmons building site lol
@reecewaters63443 жыл бұрын
My dad led me here and I am not disappointed
@melissasmith78302 жыл бұрын
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.
@philomelodia2 жыл бұрын
Have another drink, you’re thinking too much.
@emmacatherine34705 жыл бұрын
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
@kevinstu15 жыл бұрын
Just like a true Irishman
@PatrickClarkin Жыл бұрын
It’s such a clever song.
@patsutton83627 ай бұрын
I could picture this happening to me 😂
@davidsherman45422 ай бұрын
I first heard this in my construction safety course for what not to do
@uelisteinemann8 ай бұрын
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
@jasonprzygocki464 жыл бұрын
Best verison
@minecraftbeed91502 жыл бұрын
My mom always sings thisss :D
@anidiotsandwich2327 жыл бұрын
My life
@marikdeathington35787 жыл бұрын
Same
@katievonolendorp58946 жыл бұрын
Poor you... come here and get a hug! 💚🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀💚
@le627ontheside25 жыл бұрын
More like my luck
@stuartolds86144 жыл бұрын
The original was by Gerald Hoffnung, by far the best.
@Mojothepyruttarrr3 ай бұрын
❤😂❤😂❤😂❤
@MockingBirdGotU6 жыл бұрын
Sing this without laughing challenge
@subtome77538 жыл бұрын
Same here
@paddylynch45144 жыл бұрын
The was me I am paddy 😂😂😂
@billelliott37186 жыл бұрын
We all be Paddy at one time or another?
@jemmet57306 жыл бұрын
Bill Elliott or most of the time at all
@JDurkin28116 жыл бұрын
It sounds like Auld Alarm Click.
@Shadyganleymawn5 жыл бұрын
Ah for fuck sake Paddy!
@Edd251646057 ай бұрын
Damn that's funny
@stevev21406 жыл бұрын
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.
@KelliieeeWalshh6 жыл бұрын
When you walk
@ernestzelnick69087 жыл бұрын
funny song
@stardestroyerism6 жыл бұрын
He left out the part where he would have broken his ankles on the barrel as he came down and it came up.
@lw4diy4 жыл бұрын
There's a spanish version and it is amazing too
@davidbjorkman2897 Жыл бұрын
Happy St. Patty's day 🍻🍻🍻
@irishelk310 жыл бұрын
Hahaha
@lilcatoUKAD6 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂
@Z0mbi3.b0y7 жыл бұрын
hahahahahahah
@caraathasthebulwark50224 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@friesianblackhorses6 жыл бұрын
The only thing that would make this video better is they make a good quality
@jacobwhorley4 жыл бұрын
😅
@Abcd-hr9ot6 жыл бұрын
i am
@PayondeAwsome7 жыл бұрын
Mother
@user-ih7ly6op4m Жыл бұрын
Any idea who wrote it?
@isiahoswell50488 жыл бұрын
I laughed so hard at this😂😂. But I have a question is he paddy or not im confused is he talking in third person?
@jonathannutt32648 жыл бұрын
+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.
@isiahoswell50488 жыл бұрын
+Jonathan Nutt okay thanks for clearing that up
@philomelodia2 жыл бұрын
Oh, God, no. Paddy is his imaginary friend.
@quillmaurer65635 жыл бұрын
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.
@hellraiser2174 жыл бұрын
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.
@quillmaurer65634 жыл бұрын
@@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.