Chords for Luke Kelly Hot Asphalt (1979)
Tempo:
130.3 bpm
Chords used:
Em
D
G
F#
E
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[G]
[F#] [E] [Em] Ah well, good evening all me jolly lads, I'm glad to [D] find you [Em] well.
If you'll gather all around me [D] now, the story I will tell.
[Em] For I've got a situation, and be gore [D] and be gob.
[Em] I can whisper I've the weekly wage of nineteen bob.
[G]
It's not much come October since I left me day to poem.
Marnie [D] boys, now bring the harps down.
[Em] But now I wear a gansey, around me [D] weighs the belt.
[Em] I'm the gaffer of the squad that makes the hot and fresh weld.
[G] We laid it in the hollows and we laid it in the flat.
And if it doesn't last forever, [D] sure it's fair to lay me [G] hat.
Well I wandered [Em] up and down the world, but sure I [D] never felt.
[Em] Any surface that was equal to the hot, ash felt.
The other night a copper comes and he says to me,
[D] McGuire, [Em] would you kindly let me light [D] me pipe down at your pile of fire.
[Em] He planks himself straight down and fucks with cotton, [D] it's up to late.
[Em] He says, I'm a decent man, you better go and mind your bank.
[G] He yelps and yells, I'm down with the new, I'm up to all your pranks.
I'll retreat [D] from the tip, my rarely ranks.
[Em] While I hit straight from the shoulder, I gave him such [D] a pelt.
[Em] That I knocked him into the boiler for all the hot, ash felt.
[G] We laid it in the hollows and we laid it in the flat.
And if it doesn't last forever, [D] sure it's fair to lay me hat.
[Em] Well I wandered up and down the world, but sure [D] I never felt.
[Em] Any surface that was equal to the hot, ash felt.
We quickly pulled him out again and threw [G] him in the tub.
And [Em] with soap and warm water [D] we began to rub and [Em] scrub.
But the little thing it hardened, it turned [D] a hard stone.
[Em] And with every other rupture you could hear the copper [G] groan.
And Lincoln says, O'Reilly, that she's locking my old nick.
And burn me if I'm not [D] right.
I gave him a hooky pick [Em] and I was as I had hoped.
We ate the earth to boil [D] until he melts.
[Em] And to stir the nice and navy in the hot, ash felt.
[G] We laid it in the hollows and we laid it in the flat.
And if it doesn't last forever, sure [D] it's fair to lay me hat.
[Em] Well I wandered up and down the world, but sure [D] I never felt.
[Em] Any surface that was equal to the hot, ash felt.
You may talk about your sailor lads, [D] balancers and the rest.
[Em] Your shoemakers and your [D] tailors, but we pleased the ladies best.
[Em] The only ones who know the way to [D] flinty hearth and melt.
[Em] Are the lads around the boil and make it hot, ash felt.
We [G] scrub and rub and scrub and chop me deathly cold.
For scientific [D] purposes we boil the impulse old.
[Em] In the Kelvin Grove Museum we poison, hanging [D] in me pelt.
[Em] As a monument to the Irish, we can hot, ash felt.
[G] We laid it in the hollows and we laid it in the flat.
And if it doesn't last forever, [D] sure it's fair to lay me hat.
[Em] Well I wandered up and down the world, but sure I [D] never felt.
[Em] Any surface that was equal to the hot, ash felt.
[N]
[F#] [E] [Em] Ah well, good evening all me jolly lads, I'm glad to [D] find you [Em] well.
If you'll gather all around me [D] now, the story I will tell.
[Em] For I've got a situation, and be gore [D] and be gob.
[Em] I can whisper I've the weekly wage of nineteen bob.
[G]
It's not much come October since I left me day to poem.
Marnie [D] boys, now bring the harps down.
[Em] But now I wear a gansey, around me [D] weighs the belt.
[Em] I'm the gaffer of the squad that makes the hot and fresh weld.
[G] We laid it in the hollows and we laid it in the flat.
And if it doesn't last forever, [D] sure it's fair to lay me [G] hat.
Well I wandered [Em] up and down the world, but sure I [D] never felt.
[Em] Any surface that was equal to the hot, ash felt.
The other night a copper comes and he says to me,
[D] McGuire, [Em] would you kindly let me light [D] me pipe down at your pile of fire.
[Em] He planks himself straight down and fucks with cotton, [D] it's up to late.
[Em] He says, I'm a decent man, you better go and mind your bank.
[G] He yelps and yells, I'm down with the new, I'm up to all your pranks.
I'll retreat [D] from the tip, my rarely ranks.
[Em] While I hit straight from the shoulder, I gave him such [D] a pelt.
[Em] That I knocked him into the boiler for all the hot, ash felt.
[G] We laid it in the hollows and we laid it in the flat.
And if it doesn't last forever, [D] sure it's fair to lay me hat.
[Em] Well I wandered up and down the world, but sure [D] I never felt.
[Em] Any surface that was equal to the hot, ash felt.
We quickly pulled him out again and threw [G] him in the tub.
And [Em] with soap and warm water [D] we began to rub and [Em] scrub.
But the little thing it hardened, it turned [D] a hard stone.
[Em] And with every other rupture you could hear the copper [G] groan.
And Lincoln says, O'Reilly, that she's locking my old nick.
And burn me if I'm not [D] right.
I gave him a hooky pick [Em] and I was as I had hoped.
We ate the earth to boil [D] until he melts.
[Em] And to stir the nice and navy in the hot, ash felt.
[G] We laid it in the hollows and we laid it in the flat.
And if it doesn't last forever, sure [D] it's fair to lay me hat.
[Em] Well I wandered up and down the world, but sure [D] I never felt.
[Em] Any surface that was equal to the hot, ash felt.
You may talk about your sailor lads, [D] balancers and the rest.
[Em] Your shoemakers and your [D] tailors, but we pleased the ladies best.
[Em] The only ones who know the way to [D] flinty hearth and melt.
[Em] Are the lads around the boil and make it hot, ash felt.
We [G] scrub and rub and scrub and chop me deathly cold.
For scientific [D] purposes we boil the impulse old.
[Em] In the Kelvin Grove Museum we poison, hanging [D] in me pelt.
[Em] As a monument to the Irish, we can hot, ash felt.
[G] We laid it in the hollows and we laid it in the flat.
And if it doesn't last forever, [D] sure it's fair to lay me hat.
[Em] Well I wandered up and down the world, but sure I [D] never felt.
[Em] Any surface that was equal to the hot, ash felt.
[N]
Key:
Em
D
G
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E
Em
D
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_ [F#] _ [E] _ _ _ [Em] Ah well, good evening all me jolly lads, I'm glad to [D] find you [Em] well.
If you'll gather all around me [D] now, the story I will tell.
[Em] For I've got a situation, and be gore [D] and be gob.
[Em] I can whisper I've the weekly wage of nineteen bob.
[G]
It's not much come October since I left me day to poem.
_ _ Marnie [D] boys, now bring the harps down.
[Em] But now I wear a gansey, around me [D] weighs the belt.
[Em] I'm the gaffer of the squad that makes the hot and fresh weld.
[G] We laid it in the hollows and we laid it in the flat.
And if it doesn't last forever, [D] sure it's fair to lay me [G] hat.
Well I wandered [Em] up and down the world, but sure I [D] never felt.
[Em] Any surface that was equal to the hot, ash felt.
The other night a copper comes and he says to me,
[D] McGuire, [Em] would you kindly let me light [D] me pipe down at your pile of fire.
[Em] He planks himself straight down and fucks with cotton, [D] it's up to late.
[Em] He says, I'm a decent man, you better go and mind your bank.
[G] He yelps and yells, I'm down with the new, I'm up to all your pranks.
_ I'll retreat [D] from the tip, my rarely ranks.
[Em] While I hit straight from the shoulder, I gave him such [D] a pelt.
[Em] That I knocked him into the boiler for all the hot, ash felt.
[G] We laid it in the hollows and we laid it in the flat.
And if it doesn't last forever, [D] sure it's fair to lay me hat.
[Em] Well I wandered up and down the world, but sure [D] I never felt.
[Em] Any surface that was equal to the hot, ash felt.
We quickly pulled him out again and threw [G] him in the tub.
And [Em] with soap and warm water [D] we began to rub and [Em] scrub.
But the little thing it hardened, it turned [D] a hard stone.
[Em] And with every other rupture you could hear the copper [G] groan.
And Lincoln says, O'Reilly, that she's locking my old nick.
And burn me if I'm not [D] right.
I gave him a hooky pick [Em] and I was as I had hoped.
We ate the earth to boil [D] until he melts.
[Em] And to stir the nice and navy in the hot, ash felt.
[G] We laid it in the hollows and we laid it in the flat.
And if it doesn't last forever, sure [D] it's fair to lay me hat.
[Em] Well I wandered up and down the world, but sure [D] I never felt.
[Em] Any surface that was equal to the hot, ash felt.
You may talk about your sailor lads, [D] balancers and the rest.
[Em] Your shoemakers and your [D] tailors, but we pleased the ladies best.
[Em] The only ones who know the way to [D] flinty hearth and melt.
[Em] Are the lads around the boil and make it hot, ash felt.
We [G] scrub and rub and scrub and chop me deathly cold.
For scientific [D] purposes we boil the impulse old.
[Em] In the Kelvin Grove Museum we poison, hanging [D] in me pelt.
[Em] As a monument to the Irish, we can hot, ash felt.
[G] We laid it in the hollows and we laid it in the flat.
And if it doesn't last forever, [D] sure it's fair to lay me hat.
[Em] Well I wandered up and down the world, but sure I [D] never felt.
[Em] Any surface that was equal to the hot, ash felt.
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [F#] _ [E] _ _ _ [Em] Ah well, good evening all me jolly lads, I'm glad to [D] find you [Em] well.
If you'll gather all around me [D] now, the story I will tell.
[Em] For I've got a situation, and be gore [D] and be gob.
[Em] I can whisper I've the weekly wage of nineteen bob.
[G]
It's not much come October since I left me day to poem.
_ _ Marnie [D] boys, now bring the harps down.
[Em] But now I wear a gansey, around me [D] weighs the belt.
[Em] I'm the gaffer of the squad that makes the hot and fresh weld.
[G] We laid it in the hollows and we laid it in the flat.
And if it doesn't last forever, [D] sure it's fair to lay me [G] hat.
Well I wandered [Em] up and down the world, but sure I [D] never felt.
[Em] Any surface that was equal to the hot, ash felt.
The other night a copper comes and he says to me,
[D] McGuire, [Em] would you kindly let me light [D] me pipe down at your pile of fire.
[Em] He planks himself straight down and fucks with cotton, [D] it's up to late.
[Em] He says, I'm a decent man, you better go and mind your bank.
[G] He yelps and yells, I'm down with the new, I'm up to all your pranks.
_ I'll retreat [D] from the tip, my rarely ranks.
[Em] While I hit straight from the shoulder, I gave him such [D] a pelt.
[Em] That I knocked him into the boiler for all the hot, ash felt.
[G] We laid it in the hollows and we laid it in the flat.
And if it doesn't last forever, [D] sure it's fair to lay me hat.
[Em] Well I wandered up and down the world, but sure [D] I never felt.
[Em] Any surface that was equal to the hot, ash felt.
We quickly pulled him out again and threw [G] him in the tub.
And [Em] with soap and warm water [D] we began to rub and [Em] scrub.
But the little thing it hardened, it turned [D] a hard stone.
[Em] And with every other rupture you could hear the copper [G] groan.
And Lincoln says, O'Reilly, that she's locking my old nick.
And burn me if I'm not [D] right.
I gave him a hooky pick [Em] and I was as I had hoped.
We ate the earth to boil [D] until he melts.
[Em] And to stir the nice and navy in the hot, ash felt.
[G] We laid it in the hollows and we laid it in the flat.
And if it doesn't last forever, sure [D] it's fair to lay me hat.
[Em] Well I wandered up and down the world, but sure [D] I never felt.
[Em] Any surface that was equal to the hot, ash felt.
You may talk about your sailor lads, [D] balancers and the rest.
[Em] Your shoemakers and your [D] tailors, but we pleased the ladies best.
[Em] The only ones who know the way to [D] flinty hearth and melt.
[Em] Are the lads around the boil and make it hot, ash felt.
We [G] scrub and rub and scrub and chop me deathly cold.
For scientific [D] purposes we boil the impulse old.
[Em] In the Kelvin Grove Museum we poison, hanging [D] in me pelt.
[Em] As a monument to the Irish, we can hot, ash felt.
[G] We laid it in the hollows and we laid it in the flat.
And if it doesn't last forever, [D] sure it's fair to lay me hat.
[Em] Well I wandered up and down the world, but sure I [D] never felt.
[Em] Any surface that was equal to the hot, ash felt.
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