Grandfather's Clock-Johnny Cash

[ti:Grandfather's Clock] [ar:Johnny Cash] [al:The Johnny Cash Children's Album] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Grandfather's Clock - Johnny Cash (约翰尼·卡什) [00:03.36]Way down South down a long dusty road [00:05.81] [00:07.26]There's an old round shackled house that nobody lives in anymore [00:11.25] [00:12.48]And if you walk down the hall and look [00:14.23]You'll see an old grandfather's clock that don't run anymore [00:17.34] [00:18.11]It's silent now and it's covered up with spider webs [00:20.51] [00:21.59]That was my grandfather's clock and this song is a story of that clock [00:26.26] [00:28.15]My grandfather's clock was too large for the shelf [00:32.46] [00:33.15]So it stood ninety years on the floor [00:36.63] [00:38.06]It was taller by half than the old man himself [00:42.60] [00:43.35]Though it weighed not a pennyweight more [00:46.43] [00:47.93]It was bought on the morn of the day that he was born [00:52.36] [00:53.15]And was always his treasure and pride [00:56.55] [00:58.01]But it stopped short never to go again [01:02.49] [01:03.03]When the old man died [01:06.29] [01:07.77]And My grandfather said that of those he could hire [01:12.10] [01:12.99]Not a servant so faithful he found [01:15.92] [01:17.79]For it wasted no time and it had but one desire [01:21.81] [01:22.73]At the close of the week to be wound [01:25.93] [01:27.45]And it kept in it's place not a frown upon it's face [01:31.80] [01:32.60]And it's hands never hung by it's side [01:36.09] [01:37.32]But it stopped short never to go again [01:41.57] [01:42.29]When the old man died [01:45.94] [01:47.13]Ninety years without slumbering tick tock tick tock [01:52.46]It's life seconds numbering tick tock tick tock [01:57.40]It stopped short never to go again [02:01.94]When the old man died [02:05.80] [02:09.51]Well it rang an alarm in the still of the night [02:13.65] [02:14.36]An alarm that for years had been dumb [02:17.65] [02:19.02]And we knew that his spirit was pluming for flight [02:23.53] [02:24.04]That his hour for departure had come [02:27.22] [02:28.63]Still the clock kept it's time with a soft and muffled chime [02:33.13] [02:33.73]As we silently stood by his side [02:36.97] [02:38.46]But it stopped short never to go again [02:43.50]When the old man died [02:47.18] [02:48.39]Ninety years without slumbering tick tock tick tock [02:53.61]It's life seconds numbering tick tock tick tock [02:58.34]It stopped short never to go again [03:02.82]When the old man died [03:07.51] [03:09.17]And I've been thinking if someday [03:10.75]I'm going down to my grandfather's old house [03:12.99] [03:13.72]And I'm gon' take that old clock and I'm gon' shine it up [03:16.08] [03:16.78]And I'm gon' to oil it up good and get it fixed up pretty [03:19.82] [03:20.78]And it'll keep time for me just like it did for my grandfather