My Grandfather's Clock lyrics
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Artist: Johnny Cash Album: Songs Of Our Soil
Lyrics
My grandfather's clock was too large for the shelf So it stood ninety years on the floor It was taller by half than the old man himself Though it weighed not a pennyweight more
It was bought on the morn of the day he was born It was always his treasure and pride And it stopped short, never to go again, when the old man died
In watching its pendulum swing to and fro Many hours he spent as a boy And in childhood and manhood the clock seemed to know And it shared both his sorrow and joy
And it struck twenty-four when he entered the door With a blooming and beautiful bride And it stopped short, never to go again, when the old man died
Ninety years without slumbering, tick, tock, tick, tick It's life seconds numbering, tick tock, tick, tock And it stopped short, never to go again, when the old man died
My grandfather said that of those he could hire Not a servant so faithful he found It wasted no time and it had one desire At the end of the week to be wound
And it stayed in its place, not a frown upon its face And it's hands never hung by it's side And it stopped short, never to go again, when the old man died
Now it rang an alarm in the still of the night An alarm that for years had been dumb We knew that his spirit was pluming in flight That his hour of departure had come
Still the clock kept its time with a soft and muffled chime As we silently stood by his side And it stopped short, never to go again, when the old man died
Ninety years without slumbering, tick, tock, tick, tick It's life seconds numbering, tick tock, tick, tock And it stopped short, never to go again, when the old man died
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