Grandfather's Clock-Sam Cooke

[ti:Grandfather's Clock] [ar:Sam Cooke] [al:The RCA Albums Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.17]Tick tock tick tock [00:03.62]Tick tock tick tock [00:06.65]Now my grandfathers' clock [00:09.39] [00:10.18]Was too large for the shelf [00:12.83] [00:13.94]So it stood 90 years on the floor [00:18.30] [00:20.97]It was taller by half than the old man himself [00:26.99] [00:28.28]Though it weighed not a pennyweight more [00:32.76] [00:34.70]Now it was bought on the morn [00:37.72] [00:38.84]Of the day that he was born [00:41.30] [00:42.15]And it was always his treasure and pride [00:47.14] [00:49.35]But it stopped short never to go again [00:55.47] [00:56.43]When the old man died [01:01.36] [01:02.99]Oh now my grandfather said [01:06.05] [01:06.68]That of those he could hire [01:09.54] [01:10.61]Not a servant so faithful he found [01:14.87] [01:17.35]For it wasted no time [01:20.34] [01:21.14]And it had but one desire [01:23.24] [01:24.47]And the close of each week to be wound [01:28.55] [01:31.34]And it kept in its place [01:33.91] [01:34.82]Not a frown on his face [01:37.37] [01:38.00]And his hands never hung by its side [01:42.43] [01:44.61]But you know that it stopped short [01:47.98] [01:49.40]Never to go again [01:51.09] [01:52.37]When the old man died [01:56.92] [01:59.64]Now rang an alarm [02:02.05] [02:02.75]In the dead of the night [02:05.32] [02:06.27]An alarm that for years had been dumb [02:10.43] [02:13.11]And we that his spirit [02:16.79]Was 'plumming' for flight [02:19.18] [02:20.24]That his hour for departure had come [02:24.19] [02:26.62]Still that clock kept the time [02:29.38] [02:30.57]With a soft and muffled chime [02:32.82] [02:33.95]As we solemnly stood by his side [02:37.98] [02:40.08]But you know that it stopped short [02:43.22] [02:44.82]Never to go again [02:46.50] [02:47.45]When the old man died [02:52.19] [02:54.10]You know that it stopped short [02:57.18] [02:58.43]Never to go again [03:00.55] [03:01.50]When the old boy died