My Grandfather's Clock - A moving song about a clock in sync with a grandfather's whole life

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    philsaatchi

    Published on Mar 09, 2023
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    My Grandfather's Clock is a song written in 1876 by Henry Clay Work,
    The song, told from a grandchild's point of view, is about
    a clock bought on the morning of a grandfather's birth and works perfectly for 90 years,
    The clock seems to know the good and bad events in the grandfather's life; it rings 24 chimes when the grandfather brings his bride into his house, and near his death it rings an alarm, which the family recognizes to mean that the grandfather is near death and gathers by his bed. After the grandfather dies, the clock stops, and never works again. Johnny Cash made a great version of this song and I hope i have done it justice

    Here are the 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

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    Phil

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