My grandfather’s clock

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 old man himself
Tho’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 it stopped, short, never to go again
When the old man died

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

It rang an alarm on the dead of the night
An alarm that for years had been dumb
And we knew that his spirit was plumbing for flight
That his hour of departure had come
Still the clock kept the time with a soft and mumbled chime
As we silently stood by his side
But it stopped, short, never to go again
When the old man died. (Chorus)