{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1464272,"song":"The Old Alarm Clock","artist":"The Dubliners","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11262413-the-old-alarm-clock-chords-by-the-dubliners/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1464272?type=chord","rating":4.79429,"votes":5,"content":"[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                  [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhen first I came to London In the year of 39[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]F[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]                            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe city looked so wonderful, and the girls were so Divine[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]F[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]                          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut the coppers got suspicious, and they soon gave me the knock[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                                [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI was charged with being the owner, of an old alarm clock[/tab]\r\n\r\n \r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]                                          [ch]G[/ch]                             \r\nWell next morning down by Marlborough Street, I caused no [/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nlittle stir[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]F[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe I.R.A were busy and a telephone did burr[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSays the judge I'm going to charge you, with the possession of this machine.[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                               [ch]G[/ch] \r\nAnd I'm also going to charge you, with the wearing of the [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nGreen[/tab]\r\n \r\n \r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                       [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWell says I to him, your honor, if you give me half a chance[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]                                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI'll show you how me small machine can make the peelers dance[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]F[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]                                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWell it ticks away politely, 'till you get an awful shock[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                            [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd it ticks away the gellignite, on me old alarm clock[/tab]\r\n \r\n \r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                          [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nO the judge says listen here my man and I'll tell you of a plan[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFor you and all your countrymen I do net give a damn[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWell the only time you'll take is mine, ten years in Dartmoor dock[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                                    [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd you can count it by the ticking, of your old alarm clock.[/tab]\r\n \r\n \r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                        [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWell this lonely Dartmoor City would put many in the jigs[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe cell it isn't pretty and it isn't very big[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]                            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSure long ago I'd have left the place, if I had only got,[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]C[/ch]                              [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch] \r\nAh me couple of sticks of gelignite and me old alarm clock[/tab]","plain_text":"","chords":["C","G","F","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}