My Grandfather's Clock - Johnny Cash

C
My grandfather's 
G7
clock was too 
C
large for the 
F
shelf, so it 
C
stood ninety 
G7
years on the 
C
floor

C
It was taller by 
G7
half, than the 
C
old man him
F
self, though it 
C
weighed not a 
G7
penny-weight 
C
more.

It was 
C
bought on the morn of the 
F
day that he was 
C
born and was always his 
D7
treasure and 
G7
pride

But it 
C
stopped 
G7
short 
C
never to go a
F
gain when the 
C
old 
G7
man 
C
died.

My 
C
grandfather 
G7
said that of 
C
those he could hire, not a 
C
servant so faith-
G7
ful he 
C
found

C
For it wasted no 
G7
time and had 
C
but one de-
F
sire at the 
C
close of each 
G7
week to be 
C
wound

C
And it kept in its' place not a 
F
frown upon its' 
C
face and its' hands never 
D7
hung by its 
G7
side

But it 
C
stopped 
G7
short - 
C
never to go a-
F
gain, when the 
C
old 
G7
man 
C
died.

For it 
C
struck twenty four when he 
F
enter'd at the 
C
door with a blooming and 
D7
beau
G7
tiful bride

But it 
C
stopped 
G7
short - 
C
never to go a-
F
gain, when the 
C
old 
G7
man 
C
died.

It 
D
rang an a-
A7
larm in the 
D
dead of the 
G
night an a
D
larm that for 
A7
years had been 
D
dumb

And we knew that his 
A7
spirit was 
D
pluming for 
G
flight, that his 
D
hour for de-
A7
parture had 
D
come.

Still the 
D
clock kept the time, with its' 
G
soft and muffled 
D
chimes, as we proudly 
E7
stood by his 
A7
side

But it 
D
stopped 
A7
short - 
D
never to go a-
G
gain, when the 
D
old 
A7
man 
D
died.

D
Ninety years without slumbering, 
D
(Dah dah dah dah, dah dah dah!)

D
His life seconds numbering, 
D
(Dah dah dah dah, dah dah dah!)

It 
D
stopped 
A7
short - 
D
never to go a-
G
gain, when the 
D
old 
A7
man 
D
died.