Hot Ashfelt-Donal Lunny

[ti:Hot Ashfelt] [ar:Donal Lunny] [al:There's Gangs of Them Digging] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Hot Ashfelt - Donal Lunny [00:05.22]Good evening [00:06.07]All my jolly lads I'm glad to find you well [00:09.30] [00:10.10]If you'll kindly pay attention now the story I will tell [00:14.42] [00:15.29]For I've got a situation and begorrah and begob [00:19.52] [00:20.27]I can whisper all the weekly wage of nineteen bob [00:24.92] [00:26.10]'Tis twelve months come October [00:28.11]Since I left me native home [00:30.27] [00:30.89]After helping them Killarney boys [00:33.83]To bring the harvest down [00:35.23] [00:35.82]But now I wear the gansey and around me waist a belt [00:40.92]I'm the gaffer of the squad that makes the hot asphalt [00:45.28] [00:46.39]Well we laid it in a hollows [00:48.68]And we laid it in the flat [00:50.69] [00:51.33]And if it doesn't last forever [00:53.16] [00:53.76]Sure I swear I'll eat me hat [00:55.71] [00:56.33]Now I've wandered up and down the world and [01:00.00]Sure I never felt [01:01.40]Any surface that was equal to the hot asphalt [01:05.91] [01:09.69]Well the other night a copper comes [01:12.44]And he says to me McGuire [01:13.93] [01:14.85]Would you kindly let me light me pipe down [01:17.88]At your boiler fire [01:18.88] [01:19.83]And he planks himself right down in front [01:22.93]With hobnails up till late [01:24.77]And says I me decent man [01:26.93]You'd better go and find your bait [01:29.39] [01:30.45]He ups and yells I'm down on you [01:33.00]I'm up to all yer pranks [01:34.34] [01:35.52]Don't I know you for a traitor from the Tipperary ranks [01:39.59] [01:40.48]Boys I hit straight from the shoulder [01:42.84] [01:43.45]And I gave him such a belt [01:45.09] [01:45.93]That I knocked him into the boiler full of hot asphalt [01:49.90] [01:53.31]Well we quickly pulled him out again [01:56.05]And we threw him in the tub [01:57.75] [01:58.38]And with soap and warm water [02:00.66]We began to rub and scrub [02:02.89] [02:03.53]But devil the thing it hardened [02:06.70]And it turned him hard as stone [02:08.37] [02:09.18]And with every other rub [02:11.12]Sure you could hear the copper groan [02:13.22] [02:14.51]I'm thinking says O'Reilly that he's lookin' like old Nick [02:18.57] [02:19.53]And burn me [02:20.95]If I am not inclined to claim him with me pick [02:23.52] [02:24.23]Now says I it would be easier to boil him till he melts [02:29.34]And to stir him nice and easy in the hot asphalt [02:33.73] [02:34.97]Well we laid it in a hollows [02:37.54]And we laid it in the flat [02:39.17] [02:39.92]And if it doesn't last forever [02:41.82] [02:42.38]Sure I swear I'll eat me hat [02:44.38] [02:45.04]Now I've wandered up and down the world [02:48.33]And sure I never felt [02:49.52] [02:50.17]Any surface that was equal to the hot asphalt [02:54.35] [02:58.05]You may talk about yer sailor lads [03:00.57] [03:01.08]Ballad singers and the rest [03:02.56] [03:03.59]Your shoemakers and your tailors but [03:06.34]We please the ladies best [03:07.61] [03:08.83]The only ones who know the way [03:11.93]Their flinty hearts to melt [03:13.00] [03:13.60]Are the boys around the boiler making hot asphalt [03:18.02] [03:19.09]With rubbing and with scrubbing [03:21.36]Sure I caught me death of cold [03:23.23] [03:24.37]For scientific purposes my body it was sold [03:28.47] [03:29.48]In the Kelvin grove museum my boys I'm hangin' in me pelt [03:33.78] [03:34.73]As a monument to the Irish making hot asphalt [03:38.67] [03:39.90]Well we laid it in a hollows [03:41.99] [03:42.68]And we laid it in the flat [03:44.76]And if it doesn't last forever [03:47.10]Sure I swear I'll eat me hat [03:49.07] [03:49.80]Now I've wandered up and down the world [03:52.89]And sure I never felt [03:54.51] [03:55.23]Any surface that was equal to the hot asphalt