That grandfather clock was too large for the shelf,
So it stood ninety years on the floor;
Was brought from the shop on the day that the grandfather was born,

And went, tick tock, ninety years without slumbering
(tick, tock, tick, tock),
His life's seconds numbering,
just like a heartbeat.

But it stopped short, never to go again,
When the old man died

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