My Grandfather’s Clock

by Johnny Cash

[Verse 1]
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My grandfather's clock
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Was too large for the shelf
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So it stood ninety years on the floor
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It was taller by half than the old man himself
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Though it weighed not a pennyweights more
 
[Verse 2]
       A               E
It was bought on the morn
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Of the day that he was born
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And was always his pleasure and pride
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But it stopped short
A           D
Never to go again
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When the old man died
 
[Verse 3]
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Ninety years without slumbering
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His life seconds numbering
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It stopped, short never to go again
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When the old man died
 
[Verse 4]
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My grandfather said 
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that of those he could hire
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Not a servant so faithful he found
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For it wasted no time and had but one desire
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At the close of each week to be wound
 
[Verse 5]
       A             E
And it kept in its place, 
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not a frown upon its face
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Just a Bowl of Cherries, Life
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And its hands never hung by its side
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But it stopped short, 
A           D
never to go again
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When the old man died
 
[Verse 6]
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It rang and alarmed
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 in the dead of the night
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An alarm that for years had been dumb
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And we knew that his spirit was pluming for flight
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That his hour for departure had come
 
[Verse 7]
       A                  E
Still the clock kept the time 
       D                  A
with a soft and muffled chime
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As we silently stood by his side
        A      E
But it stopped short, 
A           D
never to go again
         A   E    A
When the old man died
 
[Verse 8]
A                  D     A
Ninety years without slumbering
A                  D     A
His life seconds numbering
        A    E     A             D
It stopped short, never to go again
         A   E    A
When the old man died