The Old Alarm Clock-The Dubliners

[ti:The Old Alarm Clock (1993 Digital Remaster)] [ar:The Dubliners] [al:Original Dubliners] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Old Alarm Clock - The Dubliners [00:05.63]When first I came to London [00:09.96]In the year of thirty nine [00:11.69]The city looked so wonderful [00:12.59]And the girls were so divine [00:17.19]But the coppers got suspicious [00:19.13]And they soon gave me the knock [00:23.08]I was charged with being the owner [00:25.58]Of an old alarm clock [00:27.16]Oh next morning down by Barber street [00:32.04]I caused no little stir [00:34.56]The IRA were busy [00:36.27]And the telephones did burr [00:38.40]Said the judge "I'm going to charge you [00:41.71]With the possession of this machine [00:44.42]And I'm also going to charge you [00:46.29]With the wearing of the green" [00:50.46]Now says I to him "Your honor [00:52.20]If you'll give me half a chance [00:55.04]I'll show you how me small machine [00:57.34]Can make the peelers dance [00:59.05]It ticks away politely [01:02.26]Till you get an awful shock [01:03.91]And it ticks away the gelignite [01:05.97]In me old alarm clock" [01:09.67]Said the judge "Now listen here my man [01:14.16]And I'll tell you of our plan [01:16.74]For you and all your countrymen [01:18.54]I do not give a damn [01:21.29]The only time you'll take is mine [01:23.68]Ten years in Dartmoor dock [01:26.54]And you can count it by the ticking [01:29.04]Of your old alarm clock [01:30.22]Now this lonely Dartmoor prison [01:34.74]Would put many in the jigs [01:37.65]The cell it isn't pretty [01:39.41]And it isn't very big [01:42.30]Sure I'd long ago have left the place [01:45.47]If I had only got [01:48.32]Ah me couple of sticks of gelignite [01:52.13]And me old alarm clock