The Hot Asphalt chords by
Luke Kelly

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Key: E minor

Verse 1
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Good evening, all my jolly lads,
I'm glad to find you well
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Em Em 
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If you'll gather all around
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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
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'Tis twelve months come

Verse 2
October
since I left me native home
After helping them Killarney boys
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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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Em Em 
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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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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 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,
McGuire
Would you kindly let me light me
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pipe down at your boiler fire?
Em Em 
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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 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
D D 
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world and sure I never felt
Em Em 
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Any surface that was equal
to the hot asphalt

Verse 7
Em Em 
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We quickly dragged him out again and we
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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
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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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Em Em 
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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,
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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to the hot asphalt

Verse 10
Em Em 
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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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Em Em 
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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
G G 
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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 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
D D 
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Em Em 
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Any surface that was equal to the hot asphalt

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