Hot Asphalt-The Dubliners

[00:09.67]Good evening all my jolly lads I'm glad to find you well [00:13.79]If you'll gather all around me now the story I will tell [00:18.05]For I've got a situation and begorrah and begob [00:22.03]I can whisper all the weekly wage of nineteen bob [00:26.40]Tis twelve months come october since I left me native home [00:30.19]After helping them killarney boys to bring the harvest down [00:34.41]But now I wear the gansey and around me waist a belt [00:38.08]I'm the gaffer of the squad that makes the hot asphalt [00:42.04]Well we laid it in a hollows and we laid it in the flat [00:45.94]And if it doesn't last forever sure I swear I'll eat me hat [00:50.07]Well I've wandered up and down the world and sure I never felt [00:53.96]Any surface that was equal to the hot asphalt [00:58.35]The other night a copper comes and he says to me mcguire [01:02.18]Would you kindly let me light me pipe down at your boiler fire [01:06.01]And he planks himself right down in front with hobnails up till late [01:09.80]And says I me decent man you'd better go and find your bait [01:13.94]He ups and yells I'm down on you I'm up to all yer pranks [01:17.54]Don't I know you for a traitor from the tipperary ranks [01:21.36]Boys I hit straight from the shoulder and I gave him such a belt [01:25.24]That I knocked him into the boiler full of hot asphalt [01:29.11]Well we laid it in a hollows and we laid it in the flat [01:32.97]And if it doesn't last forever sure I swear I'll eat me hat [01:36.88]Well I've wandered up and down the world and sure I never felt [01:40.70]Any surface that was equal to the hot asphalt [01:44.95]We quickly dragged him out again and we threw him in the tub [01:48.51]And with soap and warm water we began to rub and scrub [01:52.60]But devil the thing it hardened and it turned him hard as stone [01:56.17]And with every other rub sure you could hear the copper groan [02:00.27]I'm thinking says o'reilly that he's looking like old nick [02:04.03]And burn me if I am not inclined to claim him with me pick [02:07.61]Now says I it would be easier to boil him till he melts [02:11.40]And to stir him nice and easy in the hot asphalt [02:15.36]Well we laid it in a hollows and we laid it in the flat [02:19.14]And if it doesn't last forever sure I swear I'll eat me hat [02:23.04]Well I've wandered up and down the world and sure I never felt [02:26.86]Any surface that was equal to the hot asphalt [02:30.76]You may talk about yer sailor lads ballad singers and the rest [02:34.49]Your shoemakers and your tailors but we please the ladies best [02:38.64]The only ones who know the way their flinty hearts to melt [02:42.21]Are the lads around the boiler making hot asphalt [02:46.32]With rubbing and with scrubbing sure I caught me death of cold [02:50.03]For scientific purposes me body it was sold [02:53.80]In the kelvin grove museum me boys I'm hanging in me pelt [02:57.49]As a monument to the Irish making hot asphalt [03:01.25]Well we laid it in a hollows and we laid it in the flat [03:04.99]And if it doesn't last forever sure I swear I'll eat me hat [03:08.79]Well I've wandered up and down the world and sure I never felt [03:12.54]Any surface that was equal to the hot asphalt [03:16.73]