Grandfather Clock Song Lyrics

My grandfather's clock was too large 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

In watching its pendulum swing to and fro
Many hours had he spent while a boy
And in childhood a man who the clock seemed to know
And it shared both his grief and his joy

For it struck twentyfour when he entered at the door