OLD GERMAN CLOCKWINDER



A German clockwinder to Manchester came

And Peter Von Gherkin was the old German's name

All up our street with his little brass bell

"Some clocks for to wind," this old German would yell



I toodalum I toodalum, I toodalum I ay

I toodalum, I toodalum in the old fashioned way

I toodalum, I toodalum, I toodalum I ay

Well I winds 'em by night and I mends 'em by day

ding dong, ding dong, ding dong, ding dong



He's met a young woman in Stephenson Square

She said as her clock was in need of repair

She took him upstairs and he followed with delight

In less than ten minutes, he'd set her clock right



Now this old German was the ladies' delight

He often went to 'em by day and by night

And some went too fast-like, others went too slow

But nine out o' ten, he could make 'em all go



While they were busy at what they was at

All of a sudden there came a rat-tat

And in came her hubby who got such a shock

To see this old German winding up his wife's clock



Our clock it was bent and knocked out of repair

Well that poor old German, he got such a scare

That never, oh never, for the rest of his life

Would he wind up the clock of another man's wife



@bawdy

recorded by Cliff Haslam

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