by Johnny Cash
[Verse 1] A E My grandfather's clock A D Was too large for the shelf A E A So it stood ninety years on the floor A E A D It was taller by half than the old man himself A E A Though it weighed not a pennyweights more [Verse 2] A E It was bought on the morn D A Of the day that he was born A D E And was always his pleasure and pride A E But it stopped short A D Never to go again A E A When the old man died [Verse 3] 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 [Verse 4] A E My grandfather said A D that of those he could hire A E A Not a servant so faithful he found A E A D For it wasted no time and had but one desire A E A At the close of each week to be wound [Verse 5] A E And it kept in its place, D A not a frown upon its face A D E And its hands never hung by its side A E But it stopped short, A D never to go again A E A When the old man died [Verse 6] A E It rang and alarmed A D in the dead of the night A E A An alarm that for years had been dumb A E A D And we knew that his spirit was pluming for flight A E A 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 A D E 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
