Artist: | Unknown (English) |
User: | ralph estes |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
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Comment: | - |
Grandfather’s Clock (C)
(C) My grand(G7)fa(C)ther's (G7) clock (C) was (G7) too (C) large (G7) for (C) the (F) shelf,
(G7) So it (C) stood ninety (G7) years (F) on (G7) the (C) floor;
It was larg(G7)er (C) by (G7) half (C) than (G7) the (C) old (G7) man (C) him(F)self,
(G7) Though it (C) weighed not a (G7) pen(F) ny(G7) weight (C) more.
It (G7) was (C) bought on (G7) the (C) morn (G7) of (C) the (G7) day (C) that (G7) he (F) was (C) born,
And (G7) was (C) always (G7) his (C) suf(G7)fering (C) and (G7) pride
But it stop 'd (G7) short, (C)(G7)(C) never to (G7) go (C) a(F)gain,
(G7) When the (C) old (G7) man (F)(G7)(C) died..
Chorus
(C) Ninety years without (F) slumber(C)ing
(C) Tick, tock, tick, tock, [DAMP STRINGS ONLY ON TOCK)
His life seconds (F) number(C)ing,
(C) Tick, tock, tick, tock
But it stopp'd (G7) short, (C)(G7)(C) never to (G7) go (C) a(F)
gain
(G7) When the (C) old (G7) man (F)(G7)(C) died.
In watching its pendulum swing to and fro,
Many hours had he spent while a boy;
And in childhood and manhood the clock seemed to know,
And to share both his grief and his joy.
For it struck twenty-four when he entered the door,
With a blooming and beautiful bride.
But it stopp'd 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:
For it wasted no time, and had but one desire,
At the close of each week to be wound.
And it kept in its place, not a frown upon its face,
And its hands never hung by its side;
But it stopp'd short, never to go again,
When the old man died..
It rang an alarm in the dead of the night,
An alarm that for years had been dumb;
And we know that his spirit was pluming its flight,
That his hour of departure had come.
Still the clock kept the time, with a soft muffled chime,
As we silently stood by his side;
But it stopp'd short, never to go again,
When the old man died..