{"id":1769,"date":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/old-german-clockwinder"},"modified":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","slug":"old-german-clockwinder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/old-german-clockwinder\/","title":{"rendered":"OLD GERMAN CLOCKWINDER"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish traditional song lyrics \u2014 collected by Beer Belly Band.<\/em><\/p>\n

A German clockwinder to Manchester came
\nAnd Peter Von Gherkin was the old German’s name
\nAll up our street with his little brass bell
\n“Some clocks for to wind,” this old German would yell<\/p>\n

I toodalum I toodalum, I toodalum I ay
\n I toodalum, I toodalum in the old fashioned way
\n I toodalum, I toodalum, I toodalum I ay
\n Well I winds ’em by night and I mends ’em by day
\n ding dong, ding dong, ding dong, ding dong<\/p>\n

He’s met a young woman in Stephenson Square
\nShe said as her clock was in need of repair
\nShe took him upstairs and he followed with delight
\nIn less than ten minutes, he’d set her clock right<\/p>\n

Now this old German was the ladies’ delight
\nHe often went to ’em by day and by night
\nAnd some went too fast-like, others went too slow
\nBut nine out o’ ten, he could make ’em all go<\/p>\n

While they were busy at what they was at
\nAll of a sudden there came a rat-tat
\nAnd in came her hubby who got such a shock
\nTo see this old German winding up his wife’s clock<\/p>\n

Our clock it was bent and knocked out of repair
\nWell that poor old German, he got such a scare
\nThat never, oh never, for the rest of his life
\nWould he wind up the clock of another man’s wife<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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