From “The Passing Show 1915” Words by Arthur Wimperis and Hartley Carrick Music by Herman Finck
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Refrain
Tick-tock! Look at the clock
They have shut up the Station canteen
But altho’ it’s gone ten
We can get it, but when?
When you hear the clock strike thirteen
Tick-tock! Put back the clock
To the glorious days that have been
When we stayed at the club
Or our favourite pub
Till we heard the clock strike thirteen
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Tick-tock, put back the clock
To the plays that were wholesome and clean
Must the public be fed
With those scenes with a bed
Till we hear the clock strike thirteen?
Tick-tock, prepare for a shock
An original play will be seen
With a waltz that is new
By an Englishman, too
When you hear the clock strike thirteen
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Swank, swank, riches and rank
Are a huge advertising machine
You may see Lady X
Writing charity cheques
Till you hear the clock strike thirteen
Yes, yes, look at the Press
In the place where the news should have been
She will pose as a nurse
Making Tommies much worse
Till you hear the clock strike thirteen
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Oh, these clever M. P.’s
Never seem to know quite what they mean
But McKenna will find
That he knows his own mind
When you hear the clock strike thirteen?
Great Scott, traitors were shot
When Elizabeth reigned as our queen
And Keir Hardie, we hope
Will get plenty of rope
But before the clock strikes thirteen