[00:03.320]My grandfather's clock was to large for the shelf'
[00:08.730]So it stood ninety years on the floor;
[00:13.080]It was taller by half than the old man himself'
[00:17.010]Though it weighed not a pennyweight more.
[00:23.070]It was bought on the morn of the day that he was born'
[00:28.090]And was always his treasure and pride.
[00:32.360]But it stopped short' Never to go again'
[00:37.290]When the old man died..
[00:41.510]In watching its pendulum swing to and fro'
[00:45.250]Many hours had he spent while a boy;
[00:51.880]And in childhood and manhood the clock seemed to know'
[00:56.030]And to share both his grief and his joy.
[01:00.210]For it struck twenty-four when he entered the door'
[01:04.450]With a blooming and beautiful bride.
[01:09.180]But it stopped short' Never to go again'
[01:13.780]When the old man died..
[01:20.460]Ninety years without slumbering
[01:22.590]Tick' tock' tick' tock'
[01:24.470]His life seconds numbering'
[01:26.140]Tick' tock' tick' tock
[01:27.850]It stopped short' Never to go again
[01:33.710]When the old man died.
[01:40.680]And it kept in its place' not a frown upon its face'
[01:47.580]And its hands never hung by its side;
[01:54.300]But it stopped short' Never to go again'
[02:01.170]When the old man died..
[02:24.150]It rang an alarm in the dead of the night'
[02:30.450]An alarm that for years had been dumb;
[02:37.240]And we know that his spirit was pluming its flight'
[02:44.030]That his hour of departure had come.
[02:50.910]Still the clock kept the time'
[02:54.370]with a soft muffled chime'
[02:57.810]As we silently stood by his side;
[03:04.820]But it stopped short' Never to go again'
[03:11.490]When the old man died..
[03:18.480]When the old man died..