The Dubliners – Hot Asphalt (Guitar)
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[Verse 1]
Em G D Good evening all my jolly lads, I'm glad to find you well, Em D If you'll gather all around me now the story I will tell, Em G D For I've got a situation and begorrah and begob, Em D Em I can whisper all the weekly wage of nineteen bob. G G 'Tis twelve months come October since I left me native home, Em D After helping the Killarney boys to bring the harvest down. Em G D But now I wear the geansai and around me waist a belt. Em D Em I'm the gaffer of the squad that makes the hot asphalt.
[Chorus]
G G Well, we laid it in a hollows and we laid it in the flat. Em D And if it doesn't last forever sure I swear I'll eat me hat, Em G D Well, I've wandered up and down the world and sure I never felt Em D Em any surface that was equal to the hot asphalt.
[Verse 2]
Em G D The other night a copper comes and he says to me: "McGuire, Em D Would you kindly let me light me pipe down at your boiler fire?" Em G D And he planks himself right down in front, with hobnails up, till late, Em D Em And says I: "Me decent man, you'd better go and find your bate!" G G He ups and yells, "I'm down on you I'm up to all yer pranks, Em D Don't I know you for a traitor from the Tipperary ranks?" Em G D Boys I hit straight from the shoulder and I gave him such a belt Em D Em That I knocked him into the boiler full of hot asphalt.
[Chorus]
G G Well, we laid it in a hollows and we laid it in the flat. Em D And if it doesn't last forever sure I swear I'll eat me hat, Em G D Well, I've wandered up and down the world and sure I never felt Em D Em any surface that was equal to the hot asphalt.
[Verse 3]
Em G D We quickly dragged him out again and we threw him in the tub, Em D And with soap and warm water we began to rub and scrub, Em G D But devil the thing, it hardened and it turned him hard as stone Em D Em And with every other rub sure you could hear the copper groan. G G "I'm thinking", says O'Reilly, "that he's lookin' like Ould Nick, Em D And burn me if I am not inclined to claim him with me pick." Em G D "Now", says I, "it would be 'asier to boil him till he melts, Em D Em and to stir him nice and 'asy in the hot asphalt."
[Chorus]
G G Well, we laid it in a hollows and we laid it in the flat. Em D And if it doesn't last forever sure I swear I'll eat me hat, Em G D Well, I've wandered up and down the world and sure I never felt Em D Em any surface that was equal to the hot asphalt.
[Verse 4]
Em G D You may talk about yer sailorlads, ballad singers and the rest, Em D Your shoemakers and your tailors but we please the ladies best. Em G D The only ones who know the way their flinty hearts to melt Em D Em are the lads around the boiler making hot asphalt. G G With rubbing and with scrubbing sure I caught me death of cold, Em D and for scientific purposes me body it was sold, Em G D In the Kelvingrove museum me boys, I'm hangin' in me pelt, Em D Em As a monument to the Irish mixing hot asphalt!
[Chorus]
G G Well, we laid it in a hollows and we laid it in the flat. Em D And if it doesn't last forever sure I swear I'll eat me hat, Em G D Well, I've wandered up and down the world and sure I never felt Em D Em any surface that was equal to the hot asphalt.