Grandfathers Clock from Carolina Silverbells by Carolina Silverbells

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
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
tik, tlk, tik, tok
His life seconds numbering
tik, tok, tik, tok
It stopped, short never to go again When the old man died

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

Ninety years without slumbering
tik, tlk, tik, tok
His life seconds numbering
tik, tok, tik, tok
It stopped, short never to go again When the old man died

• Acoustic
• Americana
• Folk
• Hammered Dulcimer
• Traditional
• Waynesville