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[ti:The Old Alarm Clock (1993 Digital Remaster)]
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[00:00.000]The Old Alarm Clock (1993 Remaster) - The Dubliners
[00:05.630]When first I came to London
[00:09.960]In the year of thirty nine
[00:11.690]The city looked so wonderful
[00:12.590]And the girls were so divine
[00:17.190]But the coppers got suspicious
[00:19.139]And they soon gave me the knock
[00:23.089]I was charged with being the owner
[00:25.589]Of an old alarm clock
[00:27.169]Oh next morning down by Barber street
[00:32.049]I caused no little stir
[00:34.569]The IRA were busy
[00:36.279]And the telephones did burr
[00:38.409]Said the judge"I'm going to charge you
[00:41.719]With the possession of this machine
[00:44.429]And I'm also going to charge you
[00:46.299]With the wearing of the green"
[00:50.469]Now says I to him"Your honor
[00:52.209]If you'll give me half a chance
[00:55.049]I'll show you how me small machine
[00:57.349]Can make the peelers dance
[00:59.059]It ticks away politely
[01:02.269]Till you get an awful shock
[01:03.913]And it ticks away the gelignite
[01:05.973]In me old alarm clock"
[01:09.673]Said the judge"Now listen here my man
[01:14.163]And I'll tell you of our plan
[01:16.743]For you and all your countrymen
[01:18.543]I do not give a damn
[01:21.293]The only time you'll take is mine
[01:23.683]Ten years in Dartmoor dock
[01:26.543]And you can count it by the ticking
[01:29.043]Of your old alarm clock
[01:30.223]Now this lonely Dartmoor prison
[01:34.743]Would put many in the jigs
[01:37.653]The cell it isn't pretty
[01:39.413]And it isn't very big
[01:42.303]Sure I'd long ago have left the place
[01:45.473]If I had only got
[01:48.323]Ah me couple of sticks of gelignite
[01:52.133]And me old alarm clock