My grandfather clock ukulele

My grandfather clock

• Eb

CAPO: 1st Fret  
KEY: Eb/PLAY: D  
  
  
INTRO: Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock,  
  
D                A7             D             G  
My grandfather's clock; Was too large for the shelf  
      D            A7           D  
So it stood ninety years on the floor  
                 A7             D          G  
It was taller by half; Than the old man himself  
          D             A7           D  
Though it weighed not a penny-weight more;  
       D                           G               D  
It was bought on the morn; Of the day that he was born  
        D           E7           A7  
And was always his treasure and pride  
       D (tacet) A7 (tacet)   D      B7   Em  
But it stopped   short  -   never to go again  
         D   A7  D  
When the old man died.  
  
D  
Ninety years without slumbering  
D  
(Dah dah dah dah, dah dah dah!) (or Trad. Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock)  
D  
His life seconds numbering  
D  
(Dah dah dah dah, dah dah dah!) (or Trad. Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock)  
   D (tacet) A7 (tacet) D        B7  Em  
It stopped   short  -   never to go again  
         D   A7  D  
When the old man died. 
  
   D           A7           D  
My grandfather said that of those he could hire  
      D               A7     D  
Not a servant so faithful he found  
                 A7           D         G  
For it wasted no time and had but one desire  
       D             A7         D  
At the close of each week to be wound  
                                 G               D  
And it kept in its' place; not a frown upon its' face  
                     E7          A7  
And its' hands never hung by its side  
       D (tacet) A7 (tacet) D        B7   Em  
But it stopped   short  -   never to go again  
         D   A7  D  
When the old man died.  
  
(Refrain:)  
  
(Note - The following verse not on Johnny Cash's version.)  
  
   D                A7    D            G  
In watching its pendulum swing to and fro  
     D            A7         D  
Many hours had he spent as a boy  
       D             A7           D             G  
And in childhood and manhood, the clock seem to know  
       D              A7            D  
And to share both his grief and his joy.  
  
       D                           G              D  
For it struck twenty four when he enter'd at the door  
       D            E7    A7  
With a blooming and beautiful bride  
       D (tacet) A7 (tacet) D        B7  Em  
But it stopped   short  -   never to go again  
         D   A7  D  
When the old man died.  
  
(Refrain:)  
  
(Key change to E)  
  
   E        B7          E           A  
It rang an alarm in the dead of the night  
    E             B7             E  
An alarm that for years had been dumb  
                     B7         E           A  
And we knew that his spirit was pluming for flight  
         E          B7          E  
That his hour for departure had come.  
  
          E              E               A                E 
Still the clock kept the time; with its' soft and muffled chimes  
      E       F#7           B7  
As we proudly stood by his side  
       E (tacet) B7 (tacet) E        C#7 F#m  
But it stopped   short  -   never to go again  
         E   B7  E  
When the old man died.  
  
(Refrain:)  
  
E  
Ninety years without slumbering  
E  
(Dah dah dah dah, dah dah dah!) (or Trad. Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock)  
E  
His life seconds numbering  
E  
(Dah dah dah dah, dah dah dah!) (or Trad. Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock)  
   E (tacet) B7 (tacet) E        C#7 F#m  
It stopped   short  -   never to go again  
         E   B7  E  
When the old man died.  
  
(Tag:)  
         E   B7  E  
When the old man died. 

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