Liederbuch/ My Grandfather's Clock
Amerikanischer Folk-Song Alternativtitel: Grandfather's Clock • Text und Melodie: Henry Clay Work (1876 publ.) bearbeitet von Paniolo und Mjchael
My Grandfather's Clock gehört zum Standardrepertoire britischer Blas- und Bergbaukapellen und ist in den Vereinigten Staaten als Bluegrass-Stück beliebt.
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My Grandfather's ClockBearbeiten
- 1st Verse
- My G grandfather's D clock was too G large for the C shelf
- So it G stood ninety D years on the G floor
- It was G taller by D half than the G old man him- C self
- Though it G weighed not a D pennyweight G more
- It was G bought on the morn of the C day that he was G born
- And was G always his A treasure and D pride
- But it G stopped D short, G never to go a- C gain
- When the G old D man G died
- Chorus
- G Ninety years without slumbering, tick, tock, tick, tock
- G His life seconds numbering, tick, tock, tick, tock
- It G stopped D short, G never to go a- C gain
- When the G old D man G died
- 2nd Verse
- In G watching its D pendulum G swing to and C fro
- Many G hours had he D spent while a G boy
- And in G childhood and D manhood the G clock seemed to C know
- And to G share both his D grief and his G joy
- For it G struck twenty-four when he C entered at the G door
- With a G blooming and A beautiful D bride
- But it G stopped D short, G never to go a- C gain
- When the G old D man G died
- (Chorus)
- 3rd Verse
- My G grandfather D said, that of G those he could C hire
- Not a G servant so D faithful he G found
- For it G wasted no D time, and had G but one de- C sire
- At the G close of each D week to be G wound
- And it G kept in its place, not a C frown upon its G face
- And its G hand never A hung by its D side
- But it G stopped D short, G never to go a- C gain
- When the G old D man G died
- (Chorus)
- 4th Verse
- It G rang an a- D larm in the G dead of the C night
- An a- G larm that for D years had been G dumb
- And we G knew that his D spirit was G pluming for C flight
- That his G hour of de- D parture had G come
- Still the G clock kept the time, with a C soft and muffled G chime
- As we G silently A stood by his D side
- But it G stopped D short, G never to go a- C gain
- When the G old D man G died
- (Chorus)
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