Old Man At End

Grandfathers　Clock

作詞　Henry　Clay　Work　

作曲　Henry　Clay　Work　

唄　平井　堅



My grandfathers clock

Was too large for the shelf

So it stood ninety years on the floor

It was taller by half

Than the old man himself

Though it weighed not a pennyweight more



It was bought on the morn

Of the day that he was born

And was always his treasure and pride

But it stopped short

Never to go again

When the old man died



Ninety years without slumbering

Tick, tock, tick, tock

His life seconds numbering

Tick, tock, tick, tock

It stopped short

Never to go again

When the old man died



It watching its pendulum

Swing to and fro

Many hours had he spent while a boy

And in childhood and manhood

The clock seemed to know

And to share both his grief and his joy



For it struck twenty-four

When he entered at