Lyrics of "Grandfather's Clock"

My Grandfather's Clock was too large for the shelf
So it stood 90 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 he was born
And it was always his treasure and pride

Chorus:
But it stopped, short, never to go again when the old man died.
90 years without slumbering (tic toc tic toc)
His life seconds numbering (tic toc tic toc)
But it stopped, short, never to go again when the old man died.

In watching its pendulum swing to and fro
Many hours had he spent as a bot
And in childhood & manhood the clock seemed to know
And to share in his grief and his joy.
For it struck 24 when he entered at the door
With a blooming & beautiful bride.

(Chorus)

Now my grandfather said that of those he could hire
Not a servant so faithful he found
It wasted no time & it had but one desire
At the end of each week to be wound.
And it stayed in its place, not a frown upon its face
And its hands never hung by its side.

(Chorus)

It rang an alarm in the dead of the night
An alarm that for years had been dumb
And we knew that his spirit was pluming its 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

(Chorus)


Chords:
Verse (Includes first line of chorus)
DADG/DAD- :||D-A-/ /

Chorus
DGDD-/ /DADG/DAD-

This was taken from Rise Up Singing, which is by far the best songbook I
have ever found.  It has over 1200 songs with all the words and chords and
it lists sources for songs so you can hear what they sound like.
ISBN 0-86571-137-2