Oh, come listen all ye jolly lads, I'm glad to find you well
And kindly gather round me and a story will tell
For I've got a situation and begorrah and begob
I can whisper, I've a weekly wage of nineteen bob
It's twelve months from October since I left me native home
After helping the Killarney boys to bring their harvest home
But now I wear a gansey and around me waist a belt
I'm the gaffer of the squad that makes the hot asphalt
We laid it in the hollows and we laid it in the flat
And if it doеsn't last forever, sure I swеar I'll eat me hat
I've wandered up and down this world, but sure, I never felt
Any surface that was equal to the hot asphalt
Well, the other night, the copper comes and says to me, "McGuire,"
"Would you kindly let me light me pipe down by your boiler fire?"
He plonks himself right down and puts his hobnails up the grate
Then says I, "me decent man, you'd better go and mind your bait"
He ups at me and downs at me, I'm up to all your pranks
"Don't I know yer boiler came up from the Tipperary ranks?"
Well, I hit him on the shoulder and I gave him such a belt
That I knocked him into the boiler full of the hot asphalt
We laid it in the hollows and we laid it in the flat
And if it doesn't last forever, sure I swear I'll eat me hat
I've wandered up and down this world, but sure, I never felt
Any surface that was equal to the hot asphalt
And kindly gather round me and a story will tell
For I've got a situation and begorrah and begob
I can whisper, I've a weekly wage of nineteen bob
It's twelve months from October since I left me native home
After helping the Killarney boys to bring their harvest home
But now I wear a gansey and around me waist a belt
I'm the gaffer of the squad that makes the hot asphalt
We laid it in the hollows and we laid it in the flat
And if it doеsn't last forever, sure I swеar I'll eat me hat
I've wandered up and down this world, but sure, I never felt
Any surface that was equal to the hot asphalt
Well, the other night, the copper comes and says to me, "McGuire,"
"Would you kindly let me light me pipe down by your boiler fire?"
He plonks himself right down and puts his hobnails up the grate
Then says I, "me decent man, you'd better go and mind your bait"
He ups at me and downs at me, I'm up to all your pranks
"Don't I know yer boiler came up from the Tipperary ranks?"
Well, I hit him on the shoulder and I gave him such a belt
That I knocked him into the boiler full of the hot asphalt
We laid it in the hollows and we laid it in the flat
And if it doesn't last forever, sure I swear I'll eat me hat
I've wandered up and down this world, but sure, I never felt
Any surface that was equal to the hot asphalt
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