When A Felon's Not Engaged In His Employment chords by D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Gilbert & Sullivan

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When a felon's not  (A major) engaged
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in his  (D major) employment, his employment,
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or maturing  (G major) his felonious
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 (E major) little plans,  (A major) little plans,
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 (D major) his capacity for innocent enjoyment,
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innocent enjoyment, is  (G major) just as great  (A major) as any honest man's,  (D major) 
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honest  (E major) man's,
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 (A major) Our feelings we  (E major) with difficulty smother
When constabulary duty's to be done
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 (A major) I take one consideration with  (D major) another
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 (E flatdim) A        policeman's
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 (E major) lot is not a happy  (A major) one
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Oh, when  (D major) constabulary
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duty's  (A major) to be  (B minor) done
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 (D major) A police (G major) man's lot is  (D major) not a happy one,
happy one.
When the enterprising
burglar's
not a burgling, not a burgling,
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When the  (G major) cutthroat isn't  (E major) occupied  (A major) in crime,
in crime,
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He  (D major) loves to hear  (A major) the little
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 (D major) brook a -gaggling,
brook a -gaggling,
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And  (G major) listen to the  (A major) merry village
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 (D major) chimes
Village chimes
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 (A major) When the castor's
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 (E major) finished jumping on his mother
On his mother
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He loves to lie a -bosking in the  (A major) sun
In the sun
I take one consideration
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with an (D major) other
With another
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 (E flatdim) A police  (E major) man's lot is not a nappy  (A major) one
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Oh,  (D major)  (G major)  (A major) when  (D major) conspiracy duties  (A major) to be  (B minor) done,
to be done,
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 (D major) The po (G major) liceman's lot is  (A major) not a nappy  (D major) one,
nappy one.