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Good evening all my jolly lads,
I'm glad to find you well,
If you'll gather all around me
now the story I will tell,
For I've got a situation
and begorrah and begob,
I can whisper all the weekly wage
of nineteen bob.
'Tis twelve months come October
since I left me native home,
After helping the Killarney boys
to bring the harvest down.
But now I wear the geansai
and around me waist a belt.
I'm the gaffer of the squad
that makes the hot asphalt.

Well, we laid it in a hollows
and we laid it in the flat.
And if it doesn't last forever
sure I swear I'll eat me hat,
Well, I've wandered up and down the world
and sure I never felt
any surface that was equal
to the hot asphalt.

The other night a copper comes
and he says to me: "McGuire,
Would you kindly let me light me pipe
down at your boiler fire?"
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 bate!"
He ups and yells, "I'm down on you
I'm up to all yer pranks,
Don't I know you for a traitor
from the Tipperary ranks?"
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.
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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
sure I swear I'll eat me hat,
Well, I've wandered up and down the world
and sure I never felt
any surface that was equal
to the hot asphalt.

We quickly dragged him out again
and we threw him in the tub,
And with soap and warm water
we began to rub and scrub,
But devil the thing, it hardened
and it turned him hard as stone
And with every other rub sure you
could hear the copper groan.
"I'm thinking", says O'Reilly,
"that he's lookin' like Ould Nick,
And burn me if I am not inclined
to claim him with me pick."
"Now", says I, "it would be 'asier
to boil him till he melts,
and to stir him nice and 'asy
in the hot asphalt."

Well, we laid it in a hollows
and we laid it in the flat.
And if it doesn't last forever
sure I swear I'll eat me hat,
Well, I've wandered up and down the world
and sure I never felt
any surface that was equal
to the hot asphalt.

You may talk about yer sailorlads,
ballad singers and the rest,
Your shoemakers and your tailors
but we please the ladies best.
The only ones who know the way
their flinty hearts to melt
are the lads around the boiler
making hot asphalt.
With rubbing and with scrubbing
sure I caught me death of cold,
and for scientific purposes
me body it was sold,
In the Kelvingrove museum me boys,
I'm hangin' in me pelt,
As a monument to the Irish
mixing hot asphalt!

Well, we laid it in a hollows
and we laid it in the flat.
And if it doesn't last forever
sure I swear I'll eat me hat,
Well, I've wandered up and down the world
and sure I never felt
any surface that was equal
to the hot asphalt.

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