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The Hot Asphalt chords by
Luke Kelly
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Key: E minor•
Verse 1
Em
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Good evening, all my jolly lads,

I'm glad to find you well
D
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If you'll gather all around
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D

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me, now, the story I will tell
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For I've got a situation

and begorrah and begob

I can whisper all the weekly

wage of nineteen bob
G
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'Tis twelve months come
Verse 2

October

since I left me native home

After helping them Killarney boys
D
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to bring the harvest down
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But now I wear the gansey

and around me waist a belt
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I'm the gaffer of the squad

that makes the hot asphalt
Verse 3
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Well, we laid it in a hollows

and we laid it in the flat

And if it doesn't last forever,
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sure I swear, I'll eat me hat
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Well, I've wandered up and down

the world and sure I never felt
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Any surface that was equal

to the hot asphalt
Verse 4
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The other night a copper comes and he says to me,

McGuire

Would you kindly let me light me
D
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pipe down at your boiler fire?
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And he planks himself right down

in front, with hobnails up, till late

And says I, me decent man,

you'd better go and find your bait
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He ups and yells,
Verse 5

I'm 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?
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Boys, I hit straight from the shoulder

and I gave him such a belt

That I knocked him into the

boiler full of hot asphalt
Verse 6
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Well, we laid it in a hollows

and we laid it in the flat

And if it doesn't last forever,
D
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sure I swear, I'll eat me hat
Em
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Well, I've wandered up and down the
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world and sure I never felt
Em
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Any surface that was equal

to the hot asphalt
Verse 7
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We quickly dragged him out again and we
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threw him in the tub
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And with soap and warm water
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we began to rub and scrub
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But devil the thing,
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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
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I'm thinking, says
Verse 8

O'Reilly,

that he's lookin' like old Nick

And burn me if I am not inclined to
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claim him with me pick
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Now, says I, 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
Verse 9
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Well, we laid it in a hollows

and we laid it in the flat

And if it doesn't last forever,
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sure I swear, I'll eat me hat
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Well, I've wandered up and down
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the world and sure I never felt
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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, ballad
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singers and the rest
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Your shoemakers and your tailors
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but we please the ladies best
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The only ones who know

the way their flinty hearts to melt
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Are the lads around the boiler

making hot asphalt
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With rubbing and
Verse 11

with scrubbing,

sure I caught me death of cold
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For scientific purposes, me body it was sold
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In the Kelvin grove museum, me boys,

I'm hangin' in me pelt

As a monument to the Irish,

making hot asphalt
Verse 12
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Well, we laid it in a hollows

and we laid it in the flat

And if it doesn't last forever,
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
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Em
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Any surface that was equal to the hot asphalt

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Frequently asked questions

The original key of The Hot Asphalt by Luke Kelly is E minor.

The primary chords used in The Hot Asphalt are Em, D, G.

No capo is required for this song.

Yes, this version uses open chords like Em, D, G, making it a great song for beginner guitarists.

The tempo of The Hot Asphalt is approximately 65 beats per minute.

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