The Old Alarm Clock

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When first I came to London In the 
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year of 39
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The city looked so wonderful, and 
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the girls were so Divine
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But the coppers got suspicious, and
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 they soon gave me the knock
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I was charged with being the owner,
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 of an old alarm clock


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Well next morning down by 
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Marlborough Street, I caused no
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little stir
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The I.R.A were busy and a telephone 
did burr
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Says the judge I'm going to charge
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 you, with the possession of this 
machine.
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And I'm also going to charge you, 
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with the wearing of the
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Green


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Well says I to him, your honor, if
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 you give me half a chance
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I'll show you how me small machine
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 can make the peelers dance
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Well it ticks away politely, 'till
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 you get an awful shock
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And it ticks away the gellignite, 
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on me old alarm clock


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O the judge says listen here my 
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man and I'll tell you of a plan
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For you and all your countrymen I do
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 net give a damn
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Well the only time you'll take is 
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mine, ten years in Dartmoor dock
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And you can count it by the 
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ticking, of your old alarm clock.


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Well this lonely Dartmoor City 
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would put many in the jigs
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The cell it isn't pretty and it 
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isn't very big
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Sure long ago I'd have left the 
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place, if I had only got,
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Ah me couple of sticks of gelignite
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 and me old alarm clock