Capo 2nd fret

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Verse 1

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 the old man himself

 Though it weighed not a pennyweights more

Verse 2

 It was bought on the morn

 Of the day that he was born

 And was always his pleasure and pride

 But it stopped short

Never to go again

 When the old man died

Verse 3

Ninety years without slumbering

His life seconds numbering

It stopped, short never to go again

When the old man died

Verse 4

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

Verse 5

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

Verse 6

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

Verse 7

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

Verse 8

Ninety years without slumbering

His life seconds numbering

It stopped short, never to go again

When the old man died