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Boston Asphalt Tab

by Dropkick Murphys


Artist:  Dropkick Murphys
Song:  Boston Asphalt
Album:  The Gang's All Here
Track:  12


Chords:

  (x355xx)
  (133xxx)
  (355xxx)


Intro:

                      
E|---------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-5-5---5--------------5-5--------------------------------------|
D|-5-5---5-3-3---3-3-3--5-5-5-5----------------------------------|
A|-3-3---3-3-3---3-3-3--3-3-5-5----------------------------------|
E|---------1-1---1-1-1------3-3----------------------------------|

Verse 1:

                 
Searching for the best break 
                      
The black forties could afford them
                     
Came these ever-proud world-renowned 
          
Rowdy, roving men
                    
With a firmness and a purpose 
                  
That so many did dismiss
                         
Sailed these huddled human ballasts on their 
            
stinking coffin ships


Chorus:

                        
From the prison of their lonely hearts 
                     
They labored long and hard
F5               G5          (start playing intro)
Working 18 hour days for the B.A.C.


Verse 2:  play like verse 1

Intelligent, repectable 
But made of modest means 
With an independent spirit, 
So full of hopes and dreams
Opportunity denied them in a 
Doomed and starving land
Came these openhearted kindly spirits 
Of a truly threatened man


Chorus:  play like other chorus

From the prison of their lonely hearts
They labored long and hard
Working 18 hour days for the B.A.C.


Verse 3:  mostly just bass, but the guitar plays in the spots where I put he chords

Searching for the best break 
The black forties could afford them
Came these ever-proud world-renowned 
          
Rowdy, roving men
With a firmness and a purpose 
That so many did dismiss
             
Sailed these huddled human ballasts on their 
             
stinking coffin ships


Chorus:  play like other choruses

From the prison of their lonely hearts
They labored long and hard
Working 18 hour days for the B.A.C
The ...
The ...
The ...

  

That's it.  There is actally a line after "They labored long and hard" but I
couldn't hear what they were saying in the song and all the lyrics that I found
didn't have it.  Anyway, if you figure it out let me know.  Later.