Key: Eb major•
Intro 1
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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 old man himself
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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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But it stopped, short, never to go again
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When the old man died
Chorus 1
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 2
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My grandfather said
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that 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 had but one desire
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At the close of each week to be wound
And it kept in its place,
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not a frown upon its face
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But it stopped short, never to go again
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When the old man died
Verse 3
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It rang and alarmed in the dead of the night
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An alarm that for years had been dumb
And we knew
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that his spirit was pluming for flight
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That his hour for departure had come
Still the clock
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kept the time with a soft and muffled chime
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But it stopped short, never to go again
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When the old man died
Chorus 2
His life seconds numbering
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It stopped short, never to go again
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When the old man died
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsEb Bb Ab F C
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