{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":67263,"song":"Hot Asphalt","artist":"The Dubliners","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11543959-hot-asphalt-chords-by-the-dubliners/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/67263?type=chord","rating":4.96937,"votes":45,"content":"[Verse 1]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]                             [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nGood evening all my jolly lads, I'm glad to find you well,[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]Em[/ch]                            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIf you'll gather all around me now the story I will tell,[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Em[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nFor I've got a situation and begorrah and begob,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Em[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nI can whisper all the weekly wage of nineteen bob.[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]                                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\n'Tis twelve months come October since I left me native home,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Em[/ch]                             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAfter helping the Killarney boys to bring the harvest down.[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]                          [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut now I wear the geansai and around me waist a belt.[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Em[/ch]                       [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nI'm the gaffer of the squad that makes the hot asphalt.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]G[/ch]\r\n    Well, we laid it in a hollows and we laid it in the flat.[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]Em[/ch]                           [ch]D[/ch]\r\n    And if it doesn't last forever sure I swear I'll eat me hat,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]Em[/ch]                                 [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\n    Well, I've wandered up and down the world and sure I never felt[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Em[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]Em[/ch]\r\n    any surface that was equal to the hot asphalt.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Em[/ch]                             [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe other night a copper comes and he says to me: \"McGuire,[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Em[/ch]                            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWould you kindly let me light me pipe down at your boiler fire?\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Em[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd he planks himself right down in front, with hobnails up, till late,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Em[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd says I: \"Me decent man, you'd better go and find your bate!\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]                                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe ups and yells, \"I'm down on you I'm up to all yer pranks,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Em[/ch]                             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDon't I know you for a traitor from the Tipperary ranks?\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]                          [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBoys I hit straight from the shoulder and I gave him such a belt[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Em[/ch]                       [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThat I knocked him into the boiler full of hot asphalt.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]           [ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]G[/ch]\r\n    Well, we laid it in a hollows and we laid it in the flat.[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]Em[/ch]                           [ch]D[/ch]\r\n    And if it doesn't last forever sure I swear I'll eat me hat,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]Em[/ch]                                 [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\n    Well, I've wandered up and down the world and sure I never felt[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Em[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]Em[/ch]\r\n    any surface that was equal to the hot asphalt.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]                             [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWe quickly dragged him out again and we threw him in the tub,[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Em[/ch]                            [ch]D[/ch]\r\n And with soap and warm water we began to rub and scrub,[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Em[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut devil the thing, it hardened and it turned him hard as stone[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Em[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd with every other rub sure you could hear the copper groan.[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]                                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"I'm thinking\", says O'Reilly, \"that he's lookin' like Ould Nick,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Em[/ch]                             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd burn me if I am not inclined to claim him with me pick.\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]                          [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\n\"Now\", says I, \"it would be 'asier to boil him till he melts,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Em[/ch]                       [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nand to stir him nice and 'asy in the hot asphalt.\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]           [ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]G[/ch]\r\n    Well, we laid it in a hollows and we laid it in the flat.[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]Em[/ch]                           [ch]D[/ch]\r\n    And if it doesn't last forever sure I swear I'll eat me hat,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]Em[/ch]                                 [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\n    Well, I've wandered up and down the world and sure I never felt[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Em[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]Em[/ch]\r\n    any surface that was equal to the hot asphalt.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]                             [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYou may talk about yer sailorlads, ballad singers and the rest,[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Em[/ch]                            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYour shoemakers and your tailors but we please the ladies best.[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Em[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe only ones who know the way their flinty hearts to melt[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Em[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nare the lads around the boiler making hot asphalt.[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]                                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWith rubbing and with scrubbing sure I caught me death of cold,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Em[/ch]                             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nand for scientific purposes me body it was sold,[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]                          [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIn the Kelvingrove museum me boys, I'm hangin' in me pelt,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Em[/ch]                       [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAs a monument to the Irish mixing hot asphalt![/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]           [ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]G[/ch]\r\n    Well, we laid it in a hollows and we laid it in the flat.[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]Em[/ch]                           [ch]D[/ch]\r\n    And if it doesn't last forever sure I swear I'll eat me hat,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]Em[/ch]                                 [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\n    Well, I've wandered up and down the world and sure I never felt[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Em[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]Em[/ch]\r\n    any surface that was equal to the hot asphalt.[/tab]","plain_text":"[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]","chords":["Em","G","D"],"chord_diagrams":{"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}