Grandfather's Clock chords by Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash
Verse 1
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My grandfather's clock
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was too large for the shelf
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So it stood ninety years on the floor
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It was taller by half than the
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old man himself
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Though it weighed not a pennyweight more
Verse 2
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It was bought on the morn' of
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the day that he was born
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And was always his treasure and pride
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But it stopped, short never to go again
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When the old man died
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Verse 3
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Ninety years without slumbering
His life seconds numbering
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It stopped, short never to go again
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When the old man died
Verse 4
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My grandfather said that
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of those he could hire
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Not a servant so faithful he found
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For it wasted no time and
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had but one desire
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At the close of each week to be wound
Verse 5
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And it kept in its place,
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not a frown upon its face
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And its hands never hung by its side
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But it stopped short, never to go again
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When the old man died
Verse 6
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It rang and alarmed in
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the dead of the night
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An alarm that for years had been dumb
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And we knew that his spirit
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was pluming for flight
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That his hour for departure had come
Verse 7
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Still the clock kept the time with
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a soft and muffled chime
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As we silently stood by his side
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But it stopped short, never to go again
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When the old man died
Verse 8
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Ninety years without slumbering
His life seconds numbering
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It stopped short, never to go again
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When the old man died
Grandfather's Clock
Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash
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