The grandfather clock was too large for the shelf So it stood ninety years on the floor It was taller by half than the old man himself Though it weighed not a pennyweight more It was bought on the morn of the day that he was born And was always his treasure and his pride But it stopped short, never to go again, when the old man died.
Chorus: Ninety years without slumbering Tick-tock tick-tock His life-seconds numbering Tick-tock tick-tock It stopped... short... never to go again When the old man died.
In watching its pendulum swing to and fro Many hours had he spent as a boy And in childhood and manhood the clock seemed to know And to share both his grief and his joy For it struck twenty-four as he entered the door With a blooming and beautiful bride But it stopped short, never to go again, when the old man died.
Chorus:
My grandfather said that of these he could hire Not a servant as faithful could be found For it wasted no time, had but one desire At the end of the week to be wound And it kept in its place, not a frown upon its face And its hands never hung by its side But it stopped short, never to go again, when the old man died.
Chorus:
It rang an alarm in the dead of the night An alarm that for years had been dumb And we knew that his spirit was pluming for flight That his hour of departure had come Still the clock kept the time with a soft and muffled chime As we silently stood by its side But it stopped short, never to go again, when the old man died.
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