Johnny Cash – My Grandfathers Clock (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
G                 D
[tab]         G              C
Was too large for the shelf

      G              D             G
So it stood ninety years on the floor

         G        D            G          C
It was taller by half than the old man himself

             G            D            G
Though it weighed not a pennyweights more
[Verse 2]
       G               D
It was bought on the morn

       C                G   
Of the day that he was born

          G           C           D
And was always his pleasure and pride

        G      D
But it stopped short

G           C
Never to go again

         G   D    G
When the old man died
[Verse 3]
G                      C     G
Ninety years without slumbering

G                  C     G
His life seconds numbering

        G     D     G             C
It stopped, short never to go again

         G   D    G
When the old man died
[Verse 4]
G               D
My grandfather said 

         G               C
that of those he could hire

      G            D             G
Not a servant so faithful he found

         G        D            G        C
For it wasted no time and had but one desire

         G             D          G
At the close of each week to be wound
[Verse 5]
       G             D
And it kept in its place, 

       C              G   
not a frown upon its face

G                    C           D 
And its hands never hung by its side

        G      D
But it stopped short, 

G           C
never to go again

         G   D    G
When the old man died
[Verse 6]
G               D
It rang and alarmed

         G            C
 in the dead of the night

      G             D             G
An alarm that for years had been dumb

        G             D           G           C
And we knew that his spirit was pluming for flight

          G          D            G
That his hour for departure had come
[Verse 7]
       G                  D
Still the clock kept the time 

       C                  G   
with a soft and muffled chime

G                 C          D
As we silently stood by his side

        G      D
But it stopped short, 

G           C
never to go again

         G   D    G
When the old man died
[Verse 8]
G                  C     G
Ninety years without slumbering

G                  C     G
His life seconds numbering

        G    D     G             C
It stopped short, never to go again

         G   D    G
When the old man died