My Grandfathers Clock

- capo 2nd fret - Verse 1 : G D my grandfather’s clock G C was too large for the shelf G D G so it stood ninety years on the floor D G C it was taller by half than the the old man himself G D G though it weighed not a pennyweights more Verse 2 : G it was bought on the morn C G of the day that he was born A D and was always his pleasure and pride G D but it stopped short G C never to go again G D G 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