Hot Asphalt chords by
The Dubliners

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Intro 1

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Verse 1
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Good evening, all my jolly lads,
D D 
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I'm glad to find you well
Em Em 
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If you'll gather all around me,
D D 
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now, the story I will tell
Em Em 
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For I've got a situation and
D D 
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begorrah and  begob
Em Em 
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I can whisper all the weekly
wage of nineteen bob
G G 
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'Tis twelve months come October

Verse 2
G G 
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since I left me native home
After helping them Killarney boys
D D 
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to bring the harvest down
Em Em 
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But now I wear the gansey and
D D 
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around me waist a belt
Em Em 
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I'm the gaffer of the squad that
makes the hot asphalt
G G 
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Well, we laid it in a

Verse 3
G G 
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hollows
and we laid it in the flat
And if it doesn't last forever,
D D 
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sure I swear, I'll eat me hat
Em Em 
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Well, I've wandered up and down
D D 
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the world and sure I never felt
Em Em 
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Any surface that was equal
to the hot asphalt

Verse 4
Em Em 
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The other night a copper comes and he says to me,
D D 
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McGuire
Em Em 
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Would you kindly let me light me pipe
D D 
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down at your boiler fire?
Em Em 
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And he planks himself right down in front,
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with hobnails up, till late
Em Em 
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And says I,  me decent man,
you'd better go and find your bait
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He ups and yells, I'm

Verse 5
down on you,
I'm up to all yer pranks
Don't I know you for a traitor
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from the Tipperary ranks?
Em Em 
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Boys, I hit straight from the shoulder
D D 
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and I gave him such a belt
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That I knocked him into the
boiler full of hot asphalt
G G 
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Well, we laid it in a

Verse 6
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hollows
and we laid it in the flat
And if it doesn't last forever,
D D 
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sure I swear, I'll eat me hat
Em Em 
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Well, I've wandered up and down
D D 
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the world and sure I never felt
Em Em 
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Any surface that was equal
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Verse 7
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We quickly dragged him out again
D D 
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and we threw him in the tub
Em Em 
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And with soap and warm water
D D 
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we began to rub and scrub
Em Em 
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But devil the thing,
D D 
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it hardened and it turned him hard as stone
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And with every other rub,
sure you could hear the copper groan
G G 
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I'm thinking, says O'Reilly,

Verse 8
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that he's lookin' like old Nick
And burn me if I am not inclined
D D 
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to claim him with me pick
Em Em 
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Now, says I,
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it would be easier to boil him till he melts
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And to stir him nice and
easy in the hot asphalt
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Well, we laid it in a

Verse 9
G G 
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hollows
and we laid it in the flat
And if it doesn't last forever,
D D 
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sure I swear, I'll eat me hat
Em Em 
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Well, I've wandered up and down
D D 
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the world and sure I never felt
Em Em 
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Any surface that was equal
to the hot asphalt

Verse 10
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You may talk about yer sailor lads,
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ballad singers and the rest
Em Em 
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Your shoemakers and your tailors
D D 
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but we please the ladies best
Em Em 
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The only ones who know the way
D D 
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their flinty hearts to melt
Em Em 
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Are the lads around the boiler
making hot asphalt
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With rubbing and with

Verse 11
G G 
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scrubbing,
sure I caught me death of cold
For scientific purposes,
D D 
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me body it was sold
Em Em 
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In the Kelvin grove museum, me boys,
D D 
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I'm hangin' in me pelt
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As a monument to the Irish,
making hot asphalt
G G 
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Well, we laid it in a

Verse 12
G G 
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hollows
and we laid it in the flat
And if it doesn't last forever,
D D 
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sure I swear, I'll eat me hat
Em Em 
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Well, I've wandered up and down
the world and sure I never felt
Any surface that was equal to the hot asphalt

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