> DUBLINERS
> The Old Alarm Clock
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> When first I came to London
> In the year of thirty nine
> The city looked so wonderful
> And the girls were so divine
> But the coppers got suspicious
> And they soon gave me the knock
> I was charged with being the owner
> Of an old alarm clock
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> http://www.elyrics.net/read/d/dubliners-lyrics/the-old-alarm-clock-
> lyrics.html

Reminds me of a story told to me by a neighbour when I was still in NZ. The=
 family had emigrated from the UK, husband had come out to NZ some weeks be=
fore to find job and accommodation, wife was following with three kids in t=
ow later.

Gets to LA, and in queue in booking hall to board flight to NZ when an alar=
m clock goes off in their luggage. Her description of how this large bookin=
g hall crowded with people suddenly became empty, with her, a pile of lugga=
ge, one child of late primary school age, another nearly school age and a b=
abe in arms, in the middle of an enormous empty space with a security guard=
 wandering over, hand on gun on hip, wanting them to 'come this way' had to=
 be heard.

This was in early 1980s, before the current paranoia ...



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