My Grandfathers Clock - Misc Children Chords
Chords: Clock, G, D7, C, D, A7
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Genre: children's, folk, classical
My Grandfather’s Clock
This song was written Henry Clay Work in 1876 by and was a huge hit in it's
day!
This song is the reason 'Tall' or 'Long Case Clocks' are today called
Grandfather clocks :)
The Johnny Cash version is great, but below are the full lyrics and patterns
we like....
The Tick Tock, Tick Tock are especially popular with kids and 'it stopped'
gets a floor stomp, as does 'short'
and 'never'... Enjoy!
(This is my first tab for UG....)
[Verse 1]
G D7
My grandfather's clock
G C
Was too large for the shelf
G D7 G
So it stood ninety years on the floor
G D7 G C
It was taller by half than the old man himself
G D7 G
Though it weighed not a pennyweights more
G D
It was bought on the morn
C G
Of the day that he was born
G A7 D7
And was always his pleasure and pride
[Refrain]
G D7
But it stopped short
G C
Never to go again
G D7 G
When the old man died
G G
Ninety years without slumbering (Tick Tock, Tick Tock)
G G
His life seconds numbering (Tick Tock, Tick Tock)
G D7 G C
It stopped, short never to go again
G D7 G
When the old man died
[Verse 2]
G D7
In watching its pendulum
G C
swing to and fro
G D7 G
many hours had he spent as a boy.
G D7 G C
And in childhood and manhood the clock seemed to know
G D7 G
And to share both his grief and his joy.
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