My Grandfather's Clock

Everly Brothers

Written by Henry Clay Work

Key of C · Chords: I II IV V

Verse 1

C                G7
My grandfather's clock
        C             F
Was too large for the shelf
      C            G7           C
So it stood ninety years on the floor
                 G7            C       F
It was taller by half then the old man himself
          C           G7              C
Though it weighed not a penny weights more

Verse 2

It was bought on the morn
       F               C
Of the day that he was born
                   D7       G7
And was always his pleasure and pride
       C        G7     C           F
But it stopped  short  never to go again
         C    G7   C
When the Old  Man  died

Verse 3

Ninety years without slumbering

Verse 4

Tick tock tick tock

Verse 5

His life seconds numbering

Verse 6

Tick tock tick tock
    C        G7     C        F
But stopped  short  never to go again
         C    G7   C
When the old  man  died

Verse 2

It was bought on the morn
       F               C
Of the day that he was born
                   D7       G7
And was always his pleasure and pride
       C        G7     C           F
But it stopped  short  never to go again
         C    G7   C
When the Old  Man  died