Cash Johnny - 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.