Grandfather's Clock-Doc Watson

[ti:Grandfather's Clock] [ar:Doc Watson] [al:My Dear Old Southern Hom] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Grandfather's Clock - Doc Watson [00:18.93]My grandfather's clock was too large for the shelf [00:23.53]So it stood ninety years on the floor [00:27.76] [00:28.36]It was taller by half than the old man himself [00:32.88]And it weight not a penny's weight more [00:36.85] [00:37.49]It was bought on the morn that my grandpa was born [00:42.25]And was always his treasure and pride [00:46.76]But it stopped short never to go again [00:51.80]When the old man died [00:56.15]Ninety years without slumbering [00:59.18] [01:01.36]His life's seconds numbering [01:03.88] [01:05.88]But it stopped short never to go again [01:10.66]When the old man died [01:14.86] [01:24.37]At watching it's pendulum swing to and fro [01:29.11]Many hours he had spent as a boy [01:32.52] [01:33.29]As he grew into manhood the clock seemed to know [01:38.11]For it sharaed everyu sorrow and joy [01:42.16] [01:42.89]And it struck tewntyfour as he entered the door [01:47.49]With his beautiful and blushing bride [01:51.96]But it stopped short never to go again [01:56.79]When the old man died [02:00.75] [02:19.47]My grandfather said that of those he could hire [02:24.41]Not a servant so faithful he'd found [02:28.58]For it wasted no time and it had but one desire [02:33.66]At the close of each week to be wound [02:37.92]Yes it kept in it's place [02:40.25]But not a frown upon it's face [02:42.61]And it's hands never hung by it's side [02:47.16]But it stopped short never to go again [02:51.93]When the old man died [02:56.25] [03:05.75]Then it rang an alarm in the dead of the night [03:10.19]An alarm that for years had been dumb [03:14.82]And we knew that his spirit was pluming for flight [03:19.51]That his hour for departure had come [03:23.47] [03:24.02]Yes the clock kept the time [03:26.44]With a soft and muffled chime [03:28.80]As we stood there and watched by his side [03:33.37]But it stopped short never to go again [03:38.33]When the old man died