1.  My grandfather's clock was too tall for the shelf,
So it stood ninety years on the floor
It was taller by half than the old man himself
Though it weighed not a penny weight more
It was bought on the morn of the day that he was born
And was always his treasure and pride
But it stopped, short, never to go again
When the old man died.

Ninety years without slumbering (tick, tock, tick, tock)
Its life seconds numbering (tick, tock, tick tock)
But it stopped, short, never to go again
When the old man died.