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