




- Movie
- A Clockwork Orange
- Year
- 1971
- Character
- Tramp
- Actor
- Paul Farrell
The Tramp is one of the many arbitrary victims of Alex’s regular violent rampages across town.
A Clockwork Orange – Tramp Quotes
The tramp is singing drunkenly:
Tramp: In Dublin’s fair city / Where the girls are so pretty, / I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone. / As she wheel’d her wheel barrow, / Thro’ streets broad and narrow, / Crying “cockles and mussels alive alive O!” / “alive, alive O! Alive, alive O! / Crying Cockles and Mussels alive, alive O!” / As everybody’s knowing, You’ve got a decent tongue, / Whene’er it’s set agoing.
Alex: [voiceover] One thing I could never stand was to see a filthy, dirty old drunkie, howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers and going blerp, blerp in between, as it might be a filthy old orchestra in his stinking rotten guts. I could never stand to see anyone like that, whatever his age might be, but more especially when he was real old like this one was.
The boys stop and applaud the Tramp’s singing
Tramp: Can ye spare some cutter, me brothers?
Alex rams his club into the tramp’s stomach and pins him down:
Tramp: Well, go on, do me in you bastard cowards! I don’t want to live anyway, not in a stinking world like this!
Alex: Oh? And what’s so stinking about it?
Tramp: It’s a stinking world because there’s no law and order anymore! It’s a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old, like you done. Oh, it’s no world for an old man any longer. What sort of a world is it at all? Men on the moon, and men spinning around the earth, and there’s not no attention paid to earthly law and order no more.
[He starts singing another song, and Alex and his droogs proceed to beat him]
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