This song of happy seduction is actually quite rare.  It exists in a broadside as “The Bricklayer Bold” but the few oral versions have turned our bricklayer into a stone-cutter or a carpenter.  It has only been collected six times, twice in Gloucestershire.

For a locally-collected tune to this song, see http://glostrad.com/brickster-the/

Notes by Gwilym Davies 8 May 2015