My Grandfather Clock

CAPO: 1st Fret
KEY: Eb / PLAY: D

INTRO: Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock,

D                A7             D             G
My grandfather's clock; Was too large for the shelf
      D            A7           D
So it stood ninety years on the floor
                 A7             D          G
It was taller by half; Than the old man himself
          D             A7           D
Though it weighed not a penny-weight more;
                                  G               D
It was bought on the morn; Of the day that he was born
                       E7       A7
And was always his treasure and pride
       D (tacet) A7 (tacet)   D          G
But it stopped   short  -   never to go again
         D   A7  D
When the old man died.

(Refrain:)
D
Ninety years without slumbering
D
(Dah dah dah dah, dah dah dah!) (or Trad. Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock)
D
His life seconds numbering
D
(Dah dah dah dah, dah dah dah!) (or Trad. Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock)
   D (tacet) A7 (tacet)   D          G
It stopped   short  -   never to go again
         D   A7  D
When the old man died.

   D           A7           D
My grandfather said that of those he could hire
      D               A7     D
Not a servant so faithful he found
                 A7           D         G
For it wasted no time and had but one desire
       D             A7         D
At the close of each week to be wound
                                 G               D
And it kept in its' place; not a frown upon its' face
                     E7          A7
And its' hands never hung by its side
       D (tacet) A7 (tacet)   D          G
But it stopped   short  -   never to go again
         D   A7  D
When the old man died.

(Refrain:)

(Note - The following verse not on Johnny Cash's version.)

                   A7    D            G
In watching its pendulum swing to and fro
     D            A7         D
Many hours had he spent as a boy
                        A7        D             G
And in childhood and manhood, the clock seem to know
       D              A7            D
And to share both his grief and his joy.

                                    G            D
For it struck twenty four when he enter'd at the door
                        E7    A7
With a blooming and beautiful bride
       D (tacet) A7 (tacet)   D          G
But it stopped   short  -   never to go again
         D   A7  D
When the old man died.

(Refrain:)

(Key change to E)

   E        B7          E           A
It rang an alarm in the dead of the night
    E             B7             E
An alarm that for years had been dumb
                     B7         E           A
And we knew that his spirit was pluming for flight
         E          B7          E
That his hour for departure had come.

                                         A                E
Still the clock kept the time; with its' soft and muffled chimes
              F#           B7
As we proudly stood by his side
       E (tacet) B7 (tacet)   E          A
But it stopped   short  -   never to go again
         E   B7  E
When the old man died.

(Refrain:)

E
Ninety years without slumbering
E
(Dah dah dah dah, dah dah dah!) (or Trad. Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock)
E
His life seconds numbering
E
(Dah dah dah dah, dah dah dah!) (or Trad. Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock)
   E (tacet) B7 (tacet)   E          A
It stopped   short  -   never to go again
         E   B7  E
When the old man died.

(Tag:)
         E   B7  E
When the old man died.