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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