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Amerikanischer Folk-Song – Alternativtitel: Grandfather's Clock, Text und Melodie: Henry Clay Work (1876 publ.), bearbeitet von Paniolo 
My Grandfather's Clock gehört zum Standardrepertoire britischer Blas- und Bergbaukapellen und ist in den Vereinigten Staaten als Bluegrass-Stück beliebt.

Gitarre		Ukulele (adf#h)
		G D C A

[Bearbeiten] My Grandfather's Clock

1^st Verse

My G grandfather's D clock was too G large for the C shelf

So it G stood ninety D years on the G floor

It was G taller by D half than the G old man him- C self

Though it G weighed not a D pennyweight G more

It was G bought on the morn of the C day that he was G born

And was G always his A treasure and D pride

But it G stopped D short, G never to go a- C gain

When the G old D man G died

Chorus

G Ninety years without slumbering, tick, tock, tick, tock

G His life seconds numbering, tick, tock, tick, tock

It G stopped D short, G never to go a- C gain

When the G old D man G died

2^nd Verse

In G watching its D pendulum G swing to and C fro

Many G hours had he D spent while a G boy

And in G childhood and D manhood the G clock seemed to C know

And to G share both his D grief and his G joy

For it G struck twenty-four when he C entered at the G door

With a G blooming and A beautiful D bride

But it G stopped D short, G never to go a- C gain

When the G old D man G died

(Chorus)

3^rd Verse

My G grandfather D said, that of G those he could C hire

Not a G servant so D faithful he G found

For it G wasted no D time, and had G but one de- C sire

At the G close of each D week to be G wound

And it G kept in its place, not a C frown upon its G face

And its G hand never A hung by its D side

But it G stopped D short, G never to go a- C gain

When the G old D man G died

(Chorus)

4^th Verse

It G rang an a- D larm in the G dead of the C night

An a- G larm that for D years had been G dumb

And we G knew that his D spirit was G pluming for C flight

That his G hour of de- D parture had G come

Still the G clock kept the time, with a C soft and muffled G chime

As we G silently A stood by his D side

But it G stopped D short, G never to go a- C gain

When the G old D man G died

(Chorus)

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Verse		Chorus
| G | D | G | C || G | D | G | - ||   (2x) | G | - | C | G || G | A | D | - || | G | D | G | C || G | D | G | - ||		| G | - | - | - || G | - | - | - || | G | D | G | C || G | D | G | - ||

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