Grandfather's Clock

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
Though it weighed not a pennyweight more

It was bought on the morn'
Of the day that he was born
And was always his treasure and pride

But it stopped
Short
Never to go again
When the old man died

Ninety years without slumbering (tick tock, tick tock)
Tick tock, tick tock
His life seconds numbering (tick tock, tick tock)
Tick tock, tick tock
It stopped
Short
Never to go again
When the old man died

In watching it's pendulum swing to and fro
Many hours, had he spent while a boy
And in childhood and manhood the clock seemed to know
And to share both his grief and his joy
For it struck twenty-four when he entered at the door
With a blushing and beautiful bride

But it stopped (tock)
Short (tick tock)
Never to go again
When the old man died
When the old man died