Tonalità: F major
Verse 1
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Em
My grandfather's clock
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G
Was too large for the shelf,
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D
So it stood ninety years on the floor;
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It was taller by half
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Than the old man himself,
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D
Though it weighed not a pennyweight more.
It was bought on the morn
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Of the day that he was born,
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And was always his treasure and pride.
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But it stopped
Verse 2
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Em
short
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Never to go again,
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D
When the old man died.
Verse 3
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Em
In watching its pendulum
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Swing to and fro,
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Many hours had he spent while a boy;
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And in childhood and manhood
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The clock seemed to know,
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A
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And to share both his grief and his joy.
For it struck twenty- four
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When he entered at the door,
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With a blooming and
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Em
Asus4
beautiful bride.
Verse 4
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Em
p'd short
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G
Never to go again,
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A
D
When the old man died.
Verse 5
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A
Ninety years without slumbering,
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Tick, tock, tick, tock,
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His life seconds numbering,
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Tick, tock, tick, tock,
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It stopped short
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Never to go again,
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A
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B
When the old man died.
Verse 6
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F#m
My grandfather said
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That of those he could hire,
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Not a servant so faithful he found;
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For it wasted no time,
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And had but one desire,
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E
At the close of each week to be wound.
And it kept in its place,
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Not a frown upon its face,
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And its hands never hung by its side.
Verse 7
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F#m
But it stopped short
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A
Never to go again,
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B
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When the old man died.
Verse 8
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G#m
It rang an alarm
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B
In the dead of the night,
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C#
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An alarm that for years had been dumb;
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And we knew that his spirit
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Was pluming its flight,
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C#
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That his hour of departure had come.
Still the clock kept the time,
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C#
With a soft muffled chime,
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As we silently stood by his side.
Verse 9
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G#m
But it stopped short
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B
Never to go again,
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C#
F#
When the old man died.
Verse 10
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C#
Ninety years without slumbering,
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Tick, tock, tick, tock,
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His life seconds numbering,
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Tick, tock, tick, tock,
G#m
It stopped short
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B
Never to go again,
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F#
C#
F#
When the old man died.
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