My Grandfather’s Clock Songtext
von Fred Penner

My grandfather′s clock was too large for the shelf
And it stood ninety years on the floor.
It was taller by half than the old man himself
And it weighed not a pennyweight more.
It was bought on the morn of the day that he was born.
It 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.
His life seconds numbering
Tick tock Tick tock.
It stopped, short,
Never to go again
When the old man died.

In watching its pendulum swing to and fro
Many hours he had spent when a boy
And through childhood and manhood, the clock seemed to know
And to share both his grief and his joy

For it struck 24 when he entered at the door
With a blooming and beautiful bride,
But it stopped, short,
Never to go again
When the old man died.