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My Grandfather's Clock Lyrics
Total views: 1 time this week / Rating: 8.33/10 [6 votes]Album: Songs of Our Soil / Original Release Date: 1959-09Genre: CountrySong Duration: 2 min 43 sec
My Grandfather's Clock
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
JOHNNY CASH
My Grandfather's Clock Lyrics
My grandfather's 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 pride
But it stopped, short never to go again
When the old man died
Ninety years without slumbering
His life seconds numbering
It stopped, short never to go again
When the old man died
My grandfather said that of those he could hire
Not a servant so faithful he found
For it wasted no time and had but one desire
At the close of each 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
It rang and alarmed 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 for departure had come
Still the clock kept the time with a soft and muffled chime
As we silently stood by his side
But it stopped short, never to go again
When the old man died
Ninety years without slumbering
His life seconds numbering
It stopped short, never to go again
When the old man died
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 pride
But it stopped, short never to go again
When the old man died
Ninety years without slumbering
His life seconds numbering
It stopped, short never to go again
When the old man died
My grandfather said that of those he could hire
Not a servant so faithful he found
For it wasted no time and had but one desire
At the close of each week to be wound
And its hands never hung by its side
But it stopped short, never to go again
When the old man died
It rang and alarmed 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 for departure had come
Still the clock kept the time with a soft and muffled chime
As we silently stood by his side
But it stopped short, never to go again
When the old man died
Ninety years without slumbering
His life seconds numbering
It stopped short, never to go again
When the old man died
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Songwriter(s): Johnny Cash
Record Label(s): Originally Released 1959, 1961 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (P) 2002 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
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Debi September 4, 2010-21:17
My grandmother sang this song to me 50 yrs ago.. sweet memories... J Cash must have been young when he wrote it
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My grandmother sang this song to me 50 yrs ago.. sweet memories... J Cash must have been young when he wrote it
I believe this piece was written in the late 1870s. I think the 6th verse should read 'It rang an alarm in the dead of the night'. Don't hear this song any more.