《Hot Ashfelt》歌词

[00:00:00] Hot Ashfelt - Donal Lunny

[00:00:05] Good evening

[00:00:06] All my jolly lads I'm glad to find you well

[00:00:10] If you'll kindly pay attention now the story I will tell

[00:00:15] For I've got a situation and begorrah and begob

[00:00:20] I can whisper all the weekly wage of nineteen bob

[00:00:26] 'Tis twelve months come October

[00:00:28] Since I left me native home

[00:00:30] After helping them Killarney boys

[00:00:33] To bring the harvest down

[00:00:35] But now I wear the gansey and around me waist a belt

[00:00:40] I'm the gaffer of the squad that makes the hot asphalt

[00:00:46] Well we laid it in a hollows

[00:00:48] And we laid it in the flat

[00:00:51] And if it doesn't last forever

[00:00:53] Sure I swear I'll eat me hat

[00:00:56] Now I've wandered up and down the world and

[00:01:00] Sure I never felt

[00:01:01] Any surface that was equal to the hot asphalt

[00:01:09] Well the other night a copper comes

[00:01:12] And he says to me McGuire

[00:01:14] Would you kindly let me light me pipe down

[00:01:17] At your boiler fire

[00:01:19] And he planks himself right down in front

[00:01:22] With hobnails up till late

[00:01:24] And says I me decent man

[00:01:26] You'd better go and find your bait

[00:01:30] He ups and yells I'm down on you

[00:01:33] I'm up to all yer pranks

[00:01:35] Don't I know you for a traitor from the Tipperary ranks

[00:01:40] Boys I hit straight from the shoulder

[00:01:43] And I gave him such a belt

[00:01:45] That I knocked him into the boiler full of hot asphalt

[00:01:53] Well we quickly pulled him out again

[00:01:56] And we threw him in the tub

[00:01:58] And with soap and warm water

[00:02:00] We began to rub and scrub

[00:02:03] But devil the thing it hardened

[00:02:06] And it turned him hard as stone

[00:02:09] And with every other rub

[00:02:11] Sure you could hear the copper groan

[00:02:14] I'm thinking says O'Reilly that he's lookin' like old Nick

[00:02:19] And burn me

[00:02:20] If I am not inclined to claim him with me pick

[00:02:24] Now says I it would be easier to boil him till he melts

[00:02:29] And to stir him nice and easy in the hot asphalt

[00:02:34] Well we laid it in a hollows

[00:02:37] And we laid it in the flat

[00:02:39] And if it doesn't last forever

[00:02:42] Sure I swear I'll eat me hat

[00:02:45] Now I've wandered up and down the world

[00:02:48] And sure I never felt

[00:02:50] Any surface that was equal to the hot asphalt

[00:02:58] You may talk about yer sailor lads

[00:03:01] Ballad singers and the rest

[00:03:03] Your shoemakers and your tailors but

[00:03:06] We please the ladies best

[00:03:08] The only ones who know the way

[00:03:11] Their flinty hearts to melt

[00:03:13] Are the boys around the boiler making hot asphalt

[00:03:19] With rubbing and with scrubbing

[00:03:21] Sure I caught me death of cold

[00:03:24] For scientific purposes my body it was sold

[00:03:29] In the Kelvin grove museum my boys I'm hangin' in me pelt

[00:03:34] As a monument to the Irish making hot asphalt

[00:03:39] Well we laid it in a hollows

[00:03:42] And we laid it in the flat

[00:03:44] And if it doesn't last forever

[00:03:47] Sure I swear I'll eat me hat

[00:03:49] Now I've wandered up and down the world

[00:03:52] And sure I never felt

[00:03:55] Any surface that was equal to the hot asphalt