Henry Clay Work - My Grandfather's Clock lyrics

[Verse 1} My grandfather's clock was too tall for the shelf So it stood ninety years on the floor It was taller by half than the old man himself But it weighed not a pennyweight more It was bought on the morn that my grandfather was born And was always his treasure and pride But it stopped - short - never to go again When the old man died. [Chorus] Ninety years without slumbering Tic tock tic tock His live seconds numbering Tic tock tic tock But it stopped - short - never to go again When the old man died. [Verse 2] In watching it's pendulum swing to and fro Many hours he had spent when a boy And through childhood and manhood, the clock seemed to know And shared both his grief and his joy For it struck 24 when he entered at the door With a blushing and beautiful bride But it stopped - short - never to go again When the old man died. [Chorus] [Verse 3] My grandfather said that of those he could hire Not a servant so faithful he'd found For it kept perfect time and had but one desire At the close of each day to be wound And it kept to it's place, not a frown upon it's face And it's hands never hung by it's side But it stopped - short - never to run again When the old man died. [Chorus] It rang an alarm in the still of the night, And alarm that for years had been dumb And we knew that his spirit was pluming for flight That his hour of departure had come 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 run again When the old man died. [Chorus]