My Grandfather’s Clock - Lyrics

My Grandfather’s Clock
as performed by Johny Cash - original in D# (use Capo at thrd fret and play in C and after key change in D

(C)My grandfather’s (G7)clock
Was too (C)large for the (F)shelf
So it (C)stood ninety (G7)years on the (C)floor
It was taller by (G7)half
Than the (C)old man him(F)self
Though it (C)weighed not a (G7)pennyweight (C)more

It was bought on the morn
Of the (F)day that he was (G7)born
And was always his treasure and (G7)pride
But it (C)stopped (G7)short
(C)Never to go a(F)gain
When the (C)old (G7)man (C)died

   Ninety years without slumbering
   (Tick, tock, tick, tock)
   His life seconds numbering
   (Tick, tock, tick, tock)
   It stopped (G7)short
   (C)Never to go a(F)gain
   When the (C)old (G7)man (C)died

My grandfather (G7)said
That of (C)those he could (F)hire
Not a (C)servant so (G7)faithful he (C)found
For it wasted no (G7)time
And (C)had but one de(F)sire
At the (C)close of each (G7)week to be (C)wound

And it kept in its place
Not a (F)frown upon its (C)face,
And its hand never hung by its (G7)side
But it (C)stopped (G7)short
(C)Never to go a(F)gain
When the (C)old (G7)man (C)died D(!!!)

It rang an al(A7)arm
In the (D)dead of the (G)night
An al(D)arm that for (A7)years had been (D)dumb
And we knew that his (A7)spirit
Was (D)pluming for (G)flight
That his (D)hour for de(A7)parture had (D)come

Still the clock kept the time
With a (G)soft and muffled (D)chime
As we silently stood by his (A7)side
But it (D)stopped (A7)short
(D)Never to go a(G)gain
When the (D)old (A7)man (D)died

   Ninety years without slumbering
   (Tick, tock, tick, tock)
   His life seconds numbering
   (Tick, tock, tick, tock)
   But it (D)stopped (A7)short
   (D)Never to go a(G)gain
   When the (D)old (A7)man (D)died

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