Grandfather's Clock

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Linda Highland:

The words to Grandfather's Clock, as I remember them from elementary school,
are (follow the bouncing pendulum):

My grandfather's clock was too large for the shelf
So it stood ninety years on the floor.
It was taller by half than the hold man himself
Though it weighed not a penny weight more.

It was bought on the morn
Of the day that he was born
And was always his treasure and pride.
But the clock stopped never to go again when the old man died.

Ninety years without slumbering,
Tick tock, tick tock
It's life's seconds numbering,
Tick tock, tick tock
The clock stopped never to go again when the old man died.