The Old Alarm Clock
(专辑: A Drop Of The Hard Stuff - 1967)
When first I
came to London In the
year of 39 The
city looked so wonderful, and the
girls were so Divine But the
coppers got suspicius, and they soon gave me the
knock I
was charged with being the
owner, of an old alarm clock Well next morning down by Marlborough Street, I
caused no little stir The
I.R.A were busy and a
telephone did burr Says the
judge I'm going to charge you, with the
possession of this machine. And I'm also going to charge you, with the
wearing of the
Green Well says I
to him, your honour, if you give me half a
chance I'll show you how me small machine can make the
peelers dance Well it ticks away polictly, 'till you get an awful shock And it ticks away the
gellignite, on me old alarm clock O the
judge says listen here my man and I'll tell you of a
plan For you and all your countrymen I
do net give a
damm Well 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. Well this lonely Dartmoor City would put many in the
jigs The
cell it isn't pretty and it isn't very big Sure long ago I'd have left the
place, if I
had only got, Ah me couple of sticks of gelignite and me old alarm clock