My Grandfathers Clock

<br>My Grandfathers Clock. BY Johnny Cash<br><br><br><br>(Spoken) Way down south, down a long dusty road, There`s an old ramshakle house<br>that nobody lives in anymore.<br>And if you walk down the hall and look, you`ll see an old Grandfathers Clock<br>that don`t run anymore. It`s silent now, and it`s covered up with spider webs.<br>That was my Grandfathers Clock. And this song is the story of that clock.<br><br>(Sung) My Grandfathers Clock, was too large for the shelf, so it stood ninety<br>years on the floor. It was taller by half, than the old man himself,<br>Tho` it weighed not a penny-weight more. <br><br>It was bought on the morn Of the day <br>that he was born. And was always his treasure and pride,<br>But it stopped, Short. Never to go again, when the old man, died.<br>And my Grandfather said, that, of those he could hire, not a<br>servant so faithful, he found. For it wasted no time, and it had but one desire<br>At the close of each week, to be wound. And it kept in it`s place. <br>Not a frown upon it`s face. And it`s hands never hung by it side,<br>But it stopped, Short, never to go again. When the old man died.<br><br>Ninty years without slumbering. (Tic-Tock, Tic-Tock.)<br>His life seconds numbering. (Tic-Tock, Tic-Tock.)<br>It stopped. Short, never to go again, when the old man, died.<br><br>Well, it rang an alarm, in the still of the night, An alarm, that<br>For years had been dumb. And we knew that his Spirit, was pluming for<br>Flight, That his hour for departure had come. Still the clock<br>Kept the time, with a soft and muffled chime. As we silently stood<br>by his side. <br>But it stopped short, never to go again. When the old man, died.<br><br>Ninty years without slumbering. (Tic-Tock, Tic-Tock.)<br>His life seconds numbering. (Tic-Tock, Tic-Tock.)<br>It stopped. Short, never to go again, when the old man, died.<br><br>(Spoken) And I`ve been thinking, that someday, I`m going down<br>to my Grampa`s old house. And I`m gonna get that old clock.<br>And I`m gonna shine it up. And I`m gonna oil it up good.<br>And get it fixed up pretty. And it`ll keep time for me.<br>Just like it did for my Grampa.