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Johnny Cash -My Grandfather's Clock |
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Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock, |
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My grandfather's clock; Was too large for the shelf |
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So it stood ninety years on the floor |
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It was taller by half than the old man himself |
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Though it weighed not a penny-weight more; |
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It was bought on the morn; Of the day that he was born |
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And was always his treasure and pride |
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But it stopped short never to go again |
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When the old man died. |
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Ninety years without slumbering |
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(Dah dah dah dah, dah dah dah!) (or Trad. Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock) |
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His life seconds numbering |
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(Dah dah dah dah, dah dah dah!) (or Trad. Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock) |
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It stopped short never to go again |
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When the old man died. |
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(And) my grandfather said that of those he could hire |
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Not a servant so faitful he found |
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For it wasted no time and had but one desire |
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At the close of each week to be wound |
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And it kept in its' place; not a frown upon its' face |
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And its' hands never hung by its side |
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But it stopped short never to go again |
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When the old man died. |
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It rang an alarm in the dead of the night |
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An alarm that for years had been dumb |
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And we knew that his spirit was pluming for flight |
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That his hour for departure had come. |
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Still the clock kept the time; with its' soft and muffled chimes |
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As we proudly stood by his side |
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But it stopped short never to go again |
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When the old man died. |
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Ninety years without slumbering |
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(Dah dah dah dah, dah dah dah!) (or Trad. Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock) |
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His life seconds numbering |
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(Dah dah dah dah, dah dah dah!) (or Trad. Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock) |
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It stopped short never to go again |
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When the old man died. |
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Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock...... |