The Hot Asphalt The Mary Wallopers

[Verse 1]
Well, Good evening all me jolly lads I'm glad to find you well
If you gather all around me now a story I will tell
For I have a situation and begorrah and begob
I can whisper I’ve me weekly wage of nineteen bob
It's twelve months come October since I've left me native home
After helping them Killarney boys to bring the harvest down
But now I wear a gansey and around me waist a belt
I’m the gaffer of the squad that makes the hot asphalt

[Chorus]
We laid it in thе hollows and we laid it in the flat
And if it doesn't last forеver, well swear, I'll eat me hat
Well, I've wandered up and down the road and sure I never felt
Any surface that was equal to the hot asphalt

[Verse 2]
The other night a copper comes and he says to me, McGuire
Would you kindly let me light a duddy at your boiler fire?
Well he planks himself straight down in front, with coattails up so neat
Says I'm a decent man, d'you ever go and mind your bait
He ups and yells, I'm down on you, I'm up to all yer pranks
For don’t I know you for a traitor from the Tipperary ranks?
Boys, I swung straight from the shoulder and I hit him such a belt
That I knocked him into the boiler full of hot asphalt