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1.Ah,it´s likely gone six months ago since I came to Dublin town,
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when I joined a gang of labring men who laid the asphalt down.
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Shure now I wear a guernsey and around me waist a belt,
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I´m the gaffer of the boys who make the hot asphalt.
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So you may talk about your soldiers,your sailors and the rest,
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your tailors and your shoemakers to please the ladies best,
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but the divil a one of them has got the graisy hearts to melt,
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like the boys around the boiler making the hot asphalt.
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2.Well one day a copper comes up to me and he says to me "Mc Guire,
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will you kindly let me warm myself,around your boiling fire?"
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Then he turned around the boiler,and upon the edge he knelt,
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and he toppled right into the boiler full of hot asphalt.
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So you may talk about your soldiers,your sailors and the rest,
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your tailors and your shoemakers to please the ladies best,
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but the divil a one of them has got the graisy hearts to melt,
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like the boys around the boiler making the hot asphalt.
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3.Well quickly pulled him out of it and we put him in a tub.
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And with soap and lots of hot water we did rub and scrub.
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But the divil a bit of tare came off,it was stuck on just like stone.
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And every time we gave rub you could hear the poor man groan.
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So you may talk about your soldiers,your sailors and the rest,
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your tailors and your shoemakers to please the ladies best,
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but the divil a one of them has got the graisy hearts to melt,
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like the boys around the boiler making the hot asphalt.
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4.With the boilin´and the wettin´he caught a blooming cold,
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and for scientific purposes his body has been sold.
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Inside the National Museum now he´s a-hanging by the belt,
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as an example of the dire effects of the hot asphalt.
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So you may talk about your soldiers,your sailors and the rest,
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your tailors and your shoemakers to please the ladies best,
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but the divil a one of them has got the graisy hearts to melt,
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like the boys around the boiler making the hot asphalt.
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