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