Misc Musicals – Pirates Of Penzance - When A Felons Not Engaged In His Employment (Guitar)

       F              C7            F        F/C
When a felon's not engaged in his employment

     Bb           Bdim           C7
Or maturing his felonious little plans

      F          C7         F       F/C
His capacity for innocent enjoyment

   Bb               F   C7     F
Is just as great as any honest man's

    C                           G       G7
Our feelings we with difficulty smother

         G7                     C
When constabulary duty is to be done

       C/E            C/G       F             F#dim
Taking one consideration with another (with another)

    C                G7          C    C7
A policeman's lot is not a happy one

         F         C7           Dm          F
When constabulary duty’s to be done, to be done

    Bb               F     C7    F
A policeman's lot is not a happy one

         F            C7              F        F/C
When the enterprising burglar's not a-burgling

         Bb              Bdim        C7
When the cutthroat isn't occupied in crime

   F                 C7             F        F/C
He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling

    Bb            F     C7      F
And listen to the merry village chime

         C                                G      G7
When the coster's finished jumping on his mother

   G7                            C
He loves to lie a-basking in the sun

       C/E         C/G         F             F#dim
Taking one consideration with another (with another)

    C                G7          C    C7
A policeman's lot is not a happy one

         F         C7           Dm          F
When constabulary duty’s to be done, to be done

    Bb               F     C7    F
A policeman's lot is not a happy one

         F                 C7                F          F/C
When the drunkard shows no sign of where the drink went

   Bb             Bdim         C7
He nobly bids all alchohol farewell

         F          C7              F          F/C
When the juvenile delinquent to the clink went

   Bb                F       C7     F
He hung his mother's picture in his cell

         C                                   G       G7
When the cardshark's finished wiping out his brother

   G7                           C
He buys a rattle for his little son

       C/E         C/G         F             F#dim
Taking one consideration with another (with another)

    C                G7          C    C7
A policeman's lot is not a happy one

         F         C7           Dm          F
When constabulary duty’s to be done, to be done

    Bb               F     C7    F
A policeman's lot is not a happy one