D             A            D             G
My grandfather's clock was to large for the shelf

      D        A            D
So it stood 90 years on the floor

       D         A             D       G
It was taller by half than the old man himself

          D             A           D
Though it weighed not a pennyweight more

       D                          A
It was bought on the morn' of the day that he was born

        D                       A
And was always his treasure and pride

       D       A      D           G
But it stopped short, never to go again

         D   A   D
When the old man died

   D             G
90 years without slumbering

D    D     D    D      (strum once)
Tick tock, tick tock

    D            G
His life seconds numbering

D    D     D    D      (strum once)
Tick tock, tick tock

       D       A      D           G
But it stopped short, never to go again

         D   A   D
When the old man died



Other verses:

In watching his pendulum swing to and fro
Many hours had he spent as a boy
And in 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...

Now my grandfather said that of those could he hire
Not a servant so faithful he found
If wasted no time and it had but one desire
At the end of each week to be wound
And it stayed in it's place, not a frown upon its face
And its hands never hung by its side- but it stopped...



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this is an old song, have fun with it