My grandfather's clock was too big for the shelf
So it stood ninety years on the floor
It was taller by half than the old man himself
And it weighed not a penny-weight more
It was made on the dawn of the day that he was born
And was always his pride and his joy
But it stopped dead never to go again
When the old man died
Ninety years without slumbering
Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock
His life seconds numbering
Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock
But it stopped dead never to go again
When the old man died
My grandfather's clock was too big for the shelf
So it stood ninety years on the floor
It was taller by half than the old man himself
And it weighed not a penny-weight more
It was made on the dawn of the day that he was born
And was always his pride and his joy
But it stopped dead
Never to go again
When the old man died