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2. Well one day a copper comes to me, and he said to me: McGuire,
will you kindly let me warm myself around your boiling fire?"
Then he turned around the boiler, and upon the edge he knelt,
and he toppled right into the boiler full of hot asphalt.
3. We quickly pulled him out of it, and we put him in a tub,
and with soap and lots of water hot we did him rub and scrub.
But the divil a bit of tare came off, twas stuck on just a stone,
and every time we gave a rub you could hear the poor man groan.
4. With the boilinand the wettin he caught a blooming cold,
and for scientific purposes his body has been sold.
Inside the National Museum now hes a-hanging by his belt
as an example of the dire effects of the hot asphalt!

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