(1)
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 penny weight
more.
It was bought on the morn
Of the day that he was born,
And was
always his treasure and pride;
But it stopped short
Never to go
again,
When the old man died.
(The Folloing is ”Refrain”.)
Ninety years with out
slumbering,
Tick, tock, tick, tock,
His life seconds numbering,
Tick,
tock, tick, tock,
It stopped short
Never to go again,
When the old man
died.
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(3)
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 hand never hung by its side.
But it stopped short
Never
to go again,
When the old man died.
(Ditto)
Ninety years without slumbering,
Tick, tock, tick, tock,
His life seconds numbering,
Tick,
tock, tick, tock,
It stopped short
Never to go again,
When the old man
died.
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(2)
In watching it's pendulum
Swing to and
for,
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 at the door,
With a
blooming and beautiful bride;
But it stopped short
Never to go
again,
When the old man died.
(Ditto)
Ninety years with out
slumbering,
Tick, tock, tick, tock,
His life seconds numbering,
Tick,
tock, tick, tock,
It stopped short
Never to go again,
When the old man
died.
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(4)
It rang an alarm
In the dead of the night,
An alarm that for years had
been dumb;
And we knew that his spirit
Was pluming for flight,
That his
hour of departure had come.
Still the clock kept the time,
With a soft and
muffled chime,
As we silently stood by his side.
But it stopped
short
Never to go again,
When the old man died.
(Ditto)
Ninety years with out slumbering,
Tick, tock, tick, tock,
His life seconds
numbering,
Tick, tock, tick, tock,
It stopped short
Never to go
again,
When the old man died.
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