Brick hod

• In the song Never Any Good, Martin Simpson describes his father as "not steady enough for the office, not hard enough for the hod." • In the Irish folk song "Finnegan's Wake", the line "...to rise in the world he carried a hod", suggests that Tim Finnegan worked as a hod carrier; hod is also a slang term for a drinking vessel. • In the song "The Sick Note" by Pat Cooksey (performed by many), the narrator of the song is told to cart a load of bricks down fourteen floors "in me hod". • The song "Seven Days of the Week" by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger mentions "the poor old sod who'd built the world and carried the hod". • In the song "McAlpine's Fusiliers" it says of Sir Robert McAlpine, "...McAlpine's God is a well-filled hod". • In the song "Missing You" by Jimmy MacCarthy has the line "Your best mate’s a spade and he carries a hod". • The song "Hansel and Gretel" by Jerry Jeff Walker with the group Circus Maximus mentions "the stone walking away from the hod". • The song "Building Up And Tearing England Down" by Christy Moore and Dominic Behan mentions "And I used to think that God made the mixer, pick and hod". == Other cultural references ==

• One of the two main characters in Roald Dahl's short story The Hitch-Hiker claims to be "an 'odcarrier." • Don Wilson, guitarist, was a hod carrier before he became a founding member of The Ventures with his bricklayer friend guitarist, Bob Bogle and from there it was "Walk: Don't Run!" to The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. • Daniel Defoe, in Robinson Crusoe, describes how Robinson, not knowing how to build a wheel-barrow or basket, finally builds a tool similar to a "hodd", "which the labourers carry morter in when they serve the bricklayers". • Matt Talbot, an Irish layman and Venerable in the Catholic Church, was a hod carrier for a time. == Notes ==