Key: F major
Verse 1
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Em
My grandfather's clock
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G
Was too large for the shelf,
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A
D
So it stood ninety years on the floor;
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G
Than the old man himself,
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D
Though it weighed not a pennyweight more.
It was bought on the morn
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Of the day that he was born,
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Bm
Em
And was always his treasure and pride.
Verse 2
D
Em
short
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G
Never to go again,
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A
D
When the old man died.
Verse 3
D
Em
In watching its pendulum
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G
Swing to and fro,
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A
D
Many hours had he spent while a boy;
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G
The clock seemed to know,
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A
D
And to share both his grief and his joy.
For it struck twenty- four
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A
When he entered at the door,
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Em
Asus4
beautiful bride.
Verse 4
D
Em
p'd short
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G
Never to go again,
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A
D
When the old man died.
Verse 5
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A
Ninety years without slumbering,
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G
Never to go again,
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A
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B
When the old man died.
Verse 6
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F#m
My grandfather said
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That of those he could hire,
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B
E
Not a servant so faithful he found;
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A
And had but one desire,
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B
E
At the close of each week to be wound.
And it kept in its place,
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B
Not a frown upon its face,
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C#m
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B
And its hands never hung by its side.
Verse 7
E
F#m
But it stopped short
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A
Never to go again,
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B
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C#
When the old man died.
Verse 8
F#
G#m
It rang an alarm
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B
In the dead of the night,
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C#
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An alarm that for years had been dumb;
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B
Was pluming its flight,
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C#
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That his hour of departure had come.
Still the clock kept the time,
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With a soft muffled chime,
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As we silently stood by his side.
Verse 9
F#
G#m
But it stopped short
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B
Never to go again,
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C#
F#
When the old man died.
Verse 10
F#
C#
Ninety years without slumbering,
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B
Never to go again,
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C#
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When the old man died.
Outro 1
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