[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:00.52]Grandfather's clock  - 平井坚 [00:14.97]My grandfather's clock [00:17.33]Was too large for the shelf [00:20.27]So it stood ninety years on the floor [00:26.08]It was taller by half [00:28.99]Than the old man himself [00:31.85]Though it weighed not a pennyweight [00:35.84]More [00:37.86]It was bought on the morn [00:40.57]Of the day that he was born [00:43.60]And was always his treasure and pride [00:49.55]But it stopped short [00:53.34]Never to go again [00:55.33]When the old man died [01:01.39]Ninety years without slumbering [01:04.24]Tick  tock  tick  tock [01:07.76]His life seconds numbering [01:10.70]Tick  tock  tick  tock [01:13.66]It stopped short [01:16.18]Never to go again [01:18.83]When the old man died [01:25.06]It watching its pendulum [01:28.05]Swing to and fro [01:30.51]Many hours had he spent while a boy [01:36.47]And in childhood and manhood [01:39.68]The clock seemed to know [01:42.18]And to share both his grief and his joy [01:48.08]For it struck twenty-four [01:50.97]When he entered at the door [01:53.98]With a blooming and beautiful bride [01:59.81]But it stopped short [02:03.73]Never to go again [02:05.65]When the old man died [02:44.09]For it struck twenty-four [02:46.61]When he entered at the door [02:49.67]With a blooming and beautiful bride [02:55.48]But it stopped short [02:59.17]Never to go again [03:01.54]When the old man died [03:07.29]It rang an alarm [03:10.13]In the dead of the night [03:12.90]An alarm that for years had been dumb [03:18.91]And we knew that his spirit [03:21.72]Was pluming for flight [03:24.66]That his hour of departure had come [03:30.52]Still the clock kept the time [03:33.41]With a soft and muffled chime [03:36.45]As we silently stood by his side [03:42.30]But it stopped short [03:46.08]Never to go again [03:48.11]When the old man died [03:54.03]Ninety years without slumbering [03:57.10]Tick  tock  tick  tock [04:00.65]His life seconds numbering [04:03.58]Tick  tock  tick  tock [04:06.40]It stopped short [04:09.46]Never to go again [04:11.60]When the old man died [04:17.98]It stopped short [04:20.95]Never to go again [04:28.47]When the old man died