Hot Asphalt Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Em][D][Em]

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

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

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

[Verse 4]
The other night a [Em]copper comes and he says to me,
[D]McGuire
Would you [Em]kindly let me light me pipe
down [D]at your boiler fire?
And he [Em]planks himself right down in front,
with hobnails up, till [D]late
And says [Em]I, me decent man,
you'd better go and find your bait
He [G]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
from the [D]Tipperary ranks?
Boys, I [Em]hit straight from the shoulder
and I gave him such a [D]belt
That I [Em]knocked him into the
boiler full of hot asphalt
Well, we [G]laid it in a

[Verse 6]
[G]hollows
and we laid it in the flat
And if it doesn't last forever,
sure [D]I swear, I'll eat me hat
Well, I've [Em]wandered up and down
the world and sure I never [D]felt
Any [Em]surface that was equal
to the hot asphalt

[Verse 7]
We quickly dragged him [Em]out again
and we threw him in the [D]tub
And with [Em]soap and warm water
we [D]began to rub and scrub
But [Em]devil the thing,
it hardened and it turned him hard as [D]stone
And with [Em]every other rub,
sure you could hear the copper groan
I'm [G]thinking, says O'Reilly,

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

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

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

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

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