Plumbers Sparks And Brickies

Plumbers Sparks And Brickies

By Paul Mc Cann

Well who else but a brickie

would lay down a house for you
with blisters on his blisters

and a back near broke in two.
The homes we buy and sell
and the others that people let,
are mixed in brick and mortar
with barrows of brickies sweat.
You've got to get the lead out
if you want to get ahead,
today the go is copper

and the waters soft instead .
Its a plumbers plight all right
digging down in ditches deep,
putting in the sewerage pipes

and fixing a dripping leak.
Many hands make light work

but a sparkie brings it inside ,
through wires of many colours

on a one way ticket ride.
Bless the brickies,
sparks and the plumbers

well skilled at their trades,
for if not for people like these
we'd have to live in caves .

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