Folk
My Grandfather's Clock

Song : 
Bb

Intro :
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My grandfather's clock 
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Was too large for the shelf
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So it stood ninety years on the floor
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It was taller by half than the the old man himself
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Though it weighed not a pennyweights more
 
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It was bought on the morn
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Of the day that he was born
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And was always his pleasure and pride
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But it stopped short
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Never to go again 
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When the old man died

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Ninety years without slumbering
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His life seconds numbering
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It stopped, short 
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Never to go again 
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When the old man died
 
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My grandfather said 
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that of those he could hire
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Not a servant so faithful he found
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For it wasted no time and had but one desire
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At the close of each week to be wound
 
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And it kept in its place, not a frown upon its face
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And its hands never hung by its side
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But it stopped short
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Never to go again 
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When the old man died
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It rang and alarmed in the dead of the night
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An alarm that for years had been dumb
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And we knew that his spirit was pluming for flight
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That his hour for departure had come
 
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Still the clock kept the time 
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with a soft and muffled chime
                            C
As we silently stood by his side
        F       C
But it stopped short
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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