Johnny Cash

My grandfather clock(Chords)

Johnny Cash

Key: Eb

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Capo on 1st fret
	        st Fret  
KEY: Eb/PLAY: D  
  
  
INTRO: Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock,  
  
D                A7             D             G  
My grandfather's clock; Was too large for the shelf  
      D            A7           D  
So it stood ninety years on the floor  
                 A7             D          G  
It was taller by half; Than the old man himself  
          D             A7           D  
Though it weighed not a penny-weight more;  
       D                           G               D  
It was bought on the morn; Of the day that he was born  
        D           E7           A7  
And was always his treasure and pride  
       D (tacet) A7 (tacet)   D      B7   Em  
But it stopped   short  -   never to go again  
         D   A7  D  
When the old man died.  
  
D Ninety years without slumbering D (Dah dah dah dah, dah dah dah!) (or Trad. Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock) D His life seconds numbering D (Dah dah dah dah, dah dah dah!) (or Trad. Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock) D (tacet) A7 (tacet) D B7 Em It stopped short - never to go again D A7 D When the old man died.
D A7 D My grandfather said that of those he could hire D A7 D Not a servant so faithful he found A7 D G For it wasted no time and had but one desire D A7 D At the close of each week to be wound G D And it kept in its' place; not a frown upon its' face E7 A7 And its' hands never hung by its side D (tacet) A7 (tacet) D B7 Em But it stopped short - never to go again D A7 D When the old man died. (Refrain:) (Note - The following verse not on Johnny Cash's version.) D A7 D G In watching its pendulum swing to and fro D A7 D Many hours had he spent as a boy D A7 D G And in childhood and manhood, the clock seem to know D A7 D And to share both his grief and his joy. D G D For it struck twenty four when he enter'd at the door D E7 A7 With a blooming and beautiful bride D (tacet) A7 (tacet) D B7 Em But it stopped short - never to go again D A7 D When the old man died. (Refrain:) (Key change to E) E B7 E A It rang an alarm in the dead of the night E B7 E An alarm that for years had been dumb B7 E A And we knew that his spirit was pluming for flight E B7 E That his hour for departure had come. E E A E Still the clock kept the time; with its' soft and muffled chimes E F#7 B7 As we proudly stood by his side E (tacet) B7 (tacet) E C#7 F#m But it stopped short - never to go again E B7 E When the old man died. (Refrain:) E Ninety years without slumbering E (Dah dah dah dah, dah dah dah!) (or Trad. Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock) E His life seconds numbering E (Dah dah dah dah, dah dah dah!) (or Trad. Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock) E (tacet) B7 (tacet) E C#7 F#m It stopped short - never to go again E B7 E When the old man died. (Tag:) E B7 E When the old man died.

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