The Old Alarm Clock

The Old Alarm Clock easy guitar chords by The Dubliners

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    • Verse 1
    When 
    first 
    I came to 
    London 

    In the 
    year of 
    thirty 
    nine 

    The 
    city 
    looked so 
    wonderful 

    And 
    the 
    girls 
    were so divine 

    But 
    the 
    coppers 
    got suspi
    cious 

    And 
    they soon 
    gave 
    me the 
    knock 

    I 
    was 
    charged 
    with being 
    the owner 

    Of 
    an 
    old 
    alarm 
    clock

    Verse 2
    Oh next 
    morning 
    down by 
    Barber 
    street 

    I 
    caused 
    no little 
    stir 

    The 
    IRA 
    were 
    busy 

    And 
    the 
    telephones 
    did 
    burr 

    Said the 
    judge 
    "I'm going to 

    charge you 

    With 
    the pos
    session 
    of this machine 

    And 
    I'm 
    also 
    going to 
    charge 
    you 

    With the 
    wearing 
    of 
    the 
    green" 

    Verse 3
    Now 
    says 
    I to 
    him "Your 
    honor 

    If you'll 
    give me 
    half 
    a chance 

    I'll 
    show you 
    how me 
    small machine 

    Can 
    make the 
    peelers 
    dance 

    It 
    ticks 
    away po
    litely 

    Till 
    you get an 
    aw
    ful 
    shock 

    And 
    it 
    ticks 
    away the 
    gelignite 

    In me 
    old 
    alarm 
    clock
    " 

    Said the 
    judge "Now 
    listen 
    here, my 
    man 

    Verse 4
    And I'll 

    tell you 
    of our 
    plan 

    For 
    you 
    and all your 
    countrymen 

    I 
    do not 
    give a 
    damn 

    The 
    only 
    time you'll 
    take is 
    mine 

    Ten 
    years 
    in Dartmoor 
    dock 

    And 
    you can 
    count 
    it by the 
    ticking 

    Of 
    your 
    old alarm 
    clock

    Verse 5
    Now this 
    lonely 
    Dartmoor 
    prison 

    Would put 
    many 
    in the 
    jigs 

    The 
    cell 
    it isn't 
    pretty 

    And 
    it 
    isn't 
    very 
    big 

    Sure 
    I'd 
    long ago 
    have left 
    the place 

    If I 
    had only 
    got 

    Ah, me 
    couple of 
    sticks 
    of 
    gelignite 

    And me 
    old 
    alarm 
    clock 

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