When A Felons Not Engaged In His Employment

From the Pirates of Penzance

F Bb Gm7 F F Gm7 C7 F F Bb Gm F C F

       F               C7           F               Am
When a felon's not engaged in his employment (his employment)
     Bb           G/B            C
Or maturing his felonious little plan (little plan)
      F          C7         F               Am
His capacity for innocent enjoyment (cent enjoyment
   Bb      Gm       F   C7     F
Is just as great as any honest man's (honest man's)
    C                /G         G7/D           /G
Our feelings we with difficulty smother (culty smother)
        /B        /G           C
When constabulary duty's to be done (to be done)
        C/E                     F             F#dim
Oh take one consideration with another (with another)
    C/G              G7          C    C7
A policeman's lot is not a happy one
        F         C7           Dm          Am
When constabulary duty's to be done, to be done
    Bb        Gm7    F/C   C7    F
A policeman's lot is not a happy one

F Bb Gm7 F F Gm7 C7 F F Bb Gm F C F

         F            C7              F               Am
When the enterprising burglar's not a-burgling (not a-burgling)
         Bb              G/B         C
When the cutthroat isn't occupied in crime (pied in crime)
   F                 C7             F                 Am
He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling (brook a-gurgling)
    Bb     Gm     F     C7      F
And listen to the merry village chime (village chime)
         C                 /G             G7/D           /G
When the coster's finished jumping on his mother (on his mother)
   /B             /G             C
He loves to lie a-basking in the sun (in the sun)
        C/E                     F             F#dim
Oh take one consideration with another (with another)
    C/G              G7          C    C7
A policeman's lot is not a happy one
        F         C7           Dm          Am
When constabulary duty's to be done, to be done
    Bb        Gm7    F/C   C7    F
A policeman's lot is not a happy one

F Bb Gm7 F F Gm7 C7 F F Bb Gm F C F

When the drunkard shows no sign of where the drink went (where the drink went)
He nobly bids all alcohol farewell (hol farewell)
When the juvenile delinquent to the clink went (to the clink went)
He hung his mother's picture in his cell (in his cell)
When the cardshark's finished wiping out his brother (out his brother)
He buys a rattle for his little son (little son)
Oh take one consideration with another (with another)
A policeman's lot is not a happy one
When constabulary duty's to be done, to be done
A policeman's lot is not a happy one