My Grandfather's Clock Lyrics - The Magnificent Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash

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 himself 

Though it weighed not a pennyweight more 

It was bought on the morn of the day that he was born 

And was always his treasure and pride 

But it stopped, short never to go again 

When the old man died 

Ninety years without slumbering 

His life seconds numbering 

It stopped, short never to go again 

When the old man died 

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My grandfather said that of those he could hire 

Not a servant so faithful he found 

For it wasted no time and had but one desire 

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, never to go again 

When the old man died 

It rang and alarmed in the dead of the night 

An alarm that for years had been dumb 

And we knew that his spirit was pluming for flight 

That his hour for 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 go again 

When the old man died 

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Ninety years without slumbering 

His life seconds numbering 

It stopped short, never to go again 

When the old man died