Dubliners - The Old Alarm Clock

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when first i came to london in the year of 39
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the city looked so wonderful , and the girls were so divine
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but the coppers got suspicious , and they soon gave me the knock
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i was charged with being the owner , of an old alarm clock

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well next morning down by 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 you , with the possession of this machine .
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and i’m also going to charge you , with the wearing of the
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green

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

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o the judge says listen here my man and i’ll tell you of a plan
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for you and all your countrymen i do net give a damn
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well the only time you’ll take is mine , ten years in dartmoor dock
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and you can count it by the ticking , of your old alarm clock .

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well this lonely dartmoor city would put many in the jigs
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the cell it isn’t pretty and it isn’t very big
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sure long ago i’d have left the place , if i had only got ,
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ah me couple of sticks of gelignite and me old alarm clock