Key: D major
Verse 1
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My grandfather's clock
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It was taller by half
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than the old man himself,
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penny weight more.
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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Ninety years without stumbling,
tick -tock, tick -tock,
his life seconds numbering,
tick -tock, tick -tock.
It stopped short, never to go again,
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In watching its pendulum
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swing to and fro,
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Many hours had he spent while a boy.
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And in childhood and manhood
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the clock seemed to know
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And to share both his grief and his joy.
For it struck twenty -four
when he entered at the door
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With a blooming and beautiful bride.
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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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Ninety years without slumbering,
tick -tock, tick -tock,
his life seconds numbering,
tick -tock, tick -tock, it stopped short,
never to go again,
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when the old man died.
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My grandfather said 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,
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but it had one desire
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At the close of each week to be wound
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And it kept in its place,
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not a frown upon its face
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Gm
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And its hands never hung by its side
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But it stopped, short,
When the old man died
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Like two years without slumbering,
Tick -tock, tick -tock,
his life seconds numbering,
Tick -tock, tick -tock, it stopped short,
Never to go again
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when the old man died.
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It rang an alarm in the dead of the night,
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An alarm that for years had been dumb,
And we knew that his spirit
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was pluming for flight,
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that his hour of departure had come.
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Still the clock kept the time
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with a soft and muffled chime,
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Eb
and we silently stood by its side.
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But it stopped short,
never to go again,
Tick -tock, tick -tock,
his life seconds numbering,
Tick -tock, tick -tock, he stopped short,
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Bb
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when the old man died.
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