The Old Alarm Clock

C G C when first i came to london in the year of 39 F C G the city looked so wonderful , and the girls were so divine F C G but the coppers got suspicious , and they soon gave me the knock C G C i was charged with being the owner , of an old alarm clock C G well next morning down by marlborough street , i caused no C little stir F C G the i . r . a were busy and a telephone did burr F C G says the judge i’m going to charge you , with the possession of this machine . C G and i’m also going to charge you , with the wearing of the C green C G C well says i to him , your honor , if you give me half a chance F C G i’ll show you how me small machine can make the peelers dance F C G well it ticks away politely , ’till you get an awful shock C G C and it ticks away the gellignite , on me old alarm clock C G C o the judge says listen here my man and i’ll tell you of a plan F C G for you and all your countrymen i do net give a damn F C G well the only time you’ll take is mine , ten years in dartmoor dock C G C and you can count it by the ticking , of your old alarm clock . C G C well this lonely dartmoor city would put many in the jigs F C G the cell it isn’t pretty and it isn’t very big F C G sure long ago i’d have left the place , if i had only got , C G C ah me couple of sticks of gelignite and me old alarm clock