Traditional: Grandfather's Clock

Song Traditional: Grandfather's Clock
Artist Disney
Album Children's Favorite Songs Volume 3

Lyrics

[00:03.320] My grandfather's clock was to large for the shelf'
[00:08.730] So it stood ninety years on the floor;
[00:13.080] It was taller by half than the old man himself'
[00:17.010] Though it weighed not a pennyweight more.
[00:23.070] It was bought on the morn of the day that he was born'
[00:28.090] And was always his treasure and pride.
[00:32.360] But it stopped short' Never to go again'
[00:37.290] When the old man died..
[00:41.510] In watching its pendulum swing to and fro'
[00:45.250] Many hours had he spent while a boy;
[00:51.880] And in childhood and manhood the clock seemed to know'
[00:56.030] And to share both his grief and his joy.
[01:00.210] For it struck twenty-four when he entered the door'
[01:04.450] With a blooming and beautiful bride.
[01:09.180] But it stopped short' Never to go again'
[01:13.780] When the old man died..
[01:20.460] Ninety years without slumbering
[01:22.590] Tick' tock' tick' tock'
[01:24.470] His life seconds numbering'
[01:26.140] Tick' tock' tick' tock
[01:27.850] It stopped short' Never to go again
[01:33.710] When the old man died.
[01:40.680] And it kept in its place' not a frown upon its face'
[01:47.580] And its hands never hung by its side;
[01:54.300] But it stopped short' Never to go again'
[02:01.170] When the old man died..
[02:24.150] It rang an alarm in the dead of the night'
[02:30.450] An alarm that for years had been dumb;
[02:37.240] And we know that his spirit was pluming its flight'
[02:44.030] That his hour of departure had come.
[02:50.910] Still the clock kept the time'
[02:54.370] with a soft muffled chime'
[02:57.810] As we silently stood by his side;
[03:04.820] But it stopped short' Never to go again'
[03:11.490] When the old man died..
[03:18.480] When the old man died..