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