My Grandfather's Clock

[ti:My Grandfather's Clock] [ar:Johnny Cash] [al:Johnny Cash] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.93]Johnny Cash -My Grandfather's Clock [00:09.08]My grandfather's clock; Was too large for the shelf [00:13.75]So it stood ninety years on the floor  [00:18.23]It was taller by half than the old man himself [00:22.61]Though it weighed not a penny-weight more; [00:26.93]It was bought on the morn; Of the day that he was born [00:31.51]And was always his treasure and pride [00:35.77]But it stopped short never to go again [00:40.37]When the old man died [00:44.88]Ninety years without slumbering [00:46.90] [00:49.63]His life seconds numbering [00:52.50] [00:54.15]It stopped short never to go again [00:58.38]When the old man died [01:03.15]My grandfather said that of those he could hire [01:07.52]Not a servant so faitful he found [01:11.84]For it wasted no time and had but one desire [01:16.48]At the close of each week to be wound [01:20.72]And it kept in its' place; not a frown upon its' face [01:25.46]And its' hands never hung by its side [01:29.81]But it stopped short never to go again [01:34.29]When the old man died [01:41.28]It rang an alarm in the dead of the night [01:45.70]An alarm that for years had been dumb [01:49.96]And we knew that his spirit was pluming for flight [01:54.42]That his hour for departure had come [01:58.75]Still the clock kept the time; with its' soft and muffled chimes [02:03.56]As we proudly stood by his side [02:07.85]But it stopped short never to go again [02:12.33]When the old man died [02:16.97]Ninety years without slumbering [02:19.00] [02:26.05]It stopped short never to go again [02:30.20]When the old man died