Cash Johnny Grandfather`s Clock Lyrics

Grandfather`s Clock Lyrics

Recorded by Johnny Cash

 

 Words and music by Henry Work

 

  

 

 INTRO: Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock,

 

  

 

 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 him- self

 

 Though it weighed not a penny-weight more;

 

 It was bought on the morn; Of the day that he was born

 

 And was always his trea- sure and pride

 

 But it stopped short - nev-er to go a- gain

 

 When the old man died.

 

  

 

 Refrain:

 

 Ninety years without slumbering

 

 (Dah dah dah dah, dah dah dah!) (or Trad. Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock)

 

 His life seconds numbering

 

 (Dah dah dah dah, dah dah dah!) (or Trad. Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock)

 

 It stopped short - nev-er to go a- gain

 

 When the old man died.

 

  

 

 My grandfather said that of those he could hire

 

 Not a servant so faith- ful he found

 

 For it wasted no time and had but one de- sire

 

 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 - nev-er to go a- gain

 

 When the old man died.

 

  

 

 Refrain:

 

  

 

 Note. The following verse not on Johnny Cash's version.

 

  

 

 In watching its pen- dulum swing to and fro

 

 Many hours had he spent as a boy

 

 And in childhood and man- hood, the clock seem to know

 

 And to share both his grief and his joy.

 

  

 

 For it struck twenty four when he en- ter'd at the door

 

 With a blooming and beau- tiful bride

 

 But it stopped short - nev-er to go a- gain

 

 When the old man died.

 

  

 

 Refrain:

 

  

 

 It rang an a- larm in the dead of the night

 

 An a-larm that for years had been *dumb

 

 And we knew that his spirit was *pluming for flight

 

 That his hour for de- parture had come.

 

  

 

 Still the clock kept the time; with its' soft and muffled chimes

 

 As we proudly stood by his side

 

 But it stopped short - nev-er to go a- gain

 

 When the old man died.

 

  

 

 Refrain:

 

  

 

 Ninety years without slumbering

 

 (Dah dah dah dah, dah dah dah!) (or Trad. Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock)

 

 His life seconds numbering

 

 (Dah dah dah dah, dah dah dah!) (or Trad. Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock)

 

 It stopped short - nev-er to go a- gain

 

 When the old man died.