Tablature grandfathers clock - Johnny Cash

          



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  Date: 4/30/97; 5:35:28 PM

  From: ah827@rgfn.epcc.Edu (Gene L. Graham)

  Subject: GRANDFATHER'S CLOCK

  

  

  GRANDFATHER'S CLOCK

  Recorded by Johnny Cash

  Words and music by Henry Work

  

  Note. In a more upbeat tempo than traditionally done.

  

  CAPO: 1st Fret/KEY: Eb/PLAY: D

  

  INTRO: Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock,

  

  [D] My grandfather's [A7] clock; Was too [D] large for the [G] shelf

  So it [D] stood ninety [A7] years on the [D] floor

  It was taller by [A7] half; Than the [D] old man him-[G] self

  Though it [D] weighed not a [A7] penny-weight [D] more;

  It was bought on the morn; Of the [G] day that he was [D] born

  And was always his trea-[E7] sure and [A7] pride

  But it [D] [P] stopped [A7] [P] short - nev-[D] er to go a-[G] gain

  When the [D] old [A7] man [D] died.

  

  Refrain:

  [D] Ninety years without slumbering

  (Dah dah dah dah, dah dah dah!) (or Trad. Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock)

  His life seconds numbering

  (Dah dah dah dah, dah dah dah!) (or Trad. Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock)

  It [D] [P] stopped [A7] [P] short - nev-[D] er to go a-[G] gain

  When the [D] old [A7] man [D] died.

  

  My [D] grandfather [A7] said that of [D] those he could hire

  Not a [D] servant so faith-[A7] ful he [D] found

  For it wasted no [A7] time and had [D] but one de-[G] sire

  At the [D] close of each [A7] week to be [D] wound

  And it kept in its' place; not a [G] frown upon its' [D] face

  And its' hands never [E7] hung by its [A7] side

  But it [D] [P] stopped [A7] [P] short - nev-[D] er to go a-[G] gain

  When the [D] old [A7] man [D] died.

  

  Refrain:

  

  Note. The following verse not on Johnny Cash's version.

  

  In watching its pen-[A7] dulum [D] swing to and [G] fro

  Many [D] hours had he [A7] spent as a [D] boy

  And in childhood and man-[A7] hood, the [D] clock seem to [G] know

  And to [D] share both his [A7] grief and his [D] joy.

  

  For it struck twenty four when he en-[G] ter'd at the [D] door

  With a blooming and beau-[E7] tiful [A7] bride

  But it [D] [P] stopped [A7] [P] short - nev-[D] er to go a-[G] gain

  When the [D] old [A7] man [D] died.

  

  Refrain:

  

  CHANGE TO E:

  

  It [E] rang an a-[B7] larm in the [E] dead of the [A] night

  An a-[E] larm that for [B7] years had been [E] *dumb

  And we knew that his [B7] spirit was [E] *pluming for [A] flight

  That his [E] hour for de-[B7] parture had [E] come.

  

  Still the clock kept the time; with its' [A] soft and muffled [E] chimes

  As we proudly [F#] stood by his [B7] side

  But it [E] [P] stopped [B7] [P] short - nev-[E] er to go a-[A] gain

  When the [E] old [B7] man [E] died.

  

  Refrain:

  

  [E] Ninety years without slumbering

  (Dah dah dah dah, dah dah dah!) (or Trad. Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock)

  His life seconds numbering

  (Dah dah dah dah, dah dah dah!) (or Trad. Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock)

  It [E] [P] stopped [B7] [P] short - nev-[E] er to go a-[A] gain

  When the [E] old [B7] man [E] died.

  

  TAG: Repeat last line of refrain. 


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 Grandfathers clock, de Johnny cash 

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