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INTRO: Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock
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My grandfather's clock was too large for the shelf
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So it stood ninety years on the floor
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It was taller by half, than the old man him-self
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Though it weighed not a penny-weight more.
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It was bought on the morn 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 * short - never to go a-gain
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When the old man died.
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My grandfather said that of those he could hire
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Not a servant so faith-ful he found
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For it wasted no time and had but one de-sire
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At the close of each week to be wound
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And it kept in its' place not a frown upon its' face
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And its' hands never hung by its side
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But it * stopped * short - never to go a-gain
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When the old man died.
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For it struck twenty four when he enter'd at the door
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With a blooming and beau-tiful bride
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But it * stopped * short - never to go a-gain
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When the old man died.
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It rang an a-larm in the dead of the night
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An a-larm that for years had been dumb
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And we knew that his spirit was pluming for flight,
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That his hour for de-parture had come.
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Still the clock kept the time, with its' soft and muffled chimes
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As we proudly stood by his side
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But it * stopped * short - never to go a-gain
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When the old man died.
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Ninety years without slumbering, (Dah dah dah dah, dah dah dah!)
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His life seconds numbering, (Dah dah dah dah, dah dah dah!)
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It * stopped * short - never to go a-gain
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When the old man died.
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When the old man died.
