My Grandfathers Clock / Johnny Cash - 1959
(Henry Clay Work - 1876)

  
 

(Spoken) Way down south, down a long dusty road,
There's an old ramshakle house
that nobody lives in anymore.
And if you walk down the hall and look, 
you'll see an old Grandfathers Clock
that don't run anymore. It's silent now, 
and it's covered up with spider webs.
That was my Grandfathers Clock. 
And this song is the story of that clock.

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 pennyweight more

It was bought on the morn of the day he was born
It was always his treasure and pride
And it stopped short, never to go again, when the old man died

In watching its pendulum swing to and fro
Many hours he spent as a boy
And in childhood and manhood the clock seemed to know
And it shared both his sorrow and joy

And it struck twenty-four when he entered the door
With a blooming and beautiful bride
And it stopped short, never to go again, when the old man died

Ninety years without slumbering, tick, tock, tick, tick
It's life seconds numbering, tick tock, tick, tock
And it stopped short, never to go again, when the old man died

My grandfather said that of those he could hire
Not a servant so faithful he found
It wasted no time and it had one desire
At the end of the week to be wound

And it stayed in its place, not a frown upon its face
And it's hands never hung by it's side
And it stopped short, never to go again, when the old man died

Now it rang an alarm in the still of the night
An alarm that for years had been dumb
We knew that his spirit was pluming in flight
That his hour of departure had come

Still the clock kept its time with a soft and muffled chime
As we silently stood by his side
And it stopped short, never to go again, when the old man died

Ninety years without slumbering, tick, tock, tick, tick
It's life seconds numbering, tick tock, tick, tock
And it stopped short, never to go again, when the old man died  
 


 

1.할아버지 시계는 아주 커 마루에 세워 놓았어요
할아버지께서 태어난 아침에 처음 우리집에 왔지요
시계는 언제나 우리 할아버지의 소중한 보물이었지요
할아버진 자랑을 하셨죠 친구라고요

그러나 어느날 할아버지께서 돌아가시던 날부터
시계는 고장나 멈추고 말았죠 다시는 가지 않았지요
시계는 언제나 우리 할아버지의 소중한 보물이었지요
할아버진 자랑을 하셨죠 친구라고요

2.할아버지의 기쁨과 슬픔을 시계는 함께 나누었죠
할아버지께서 결혼을 하실 때 시계는 축하를 했대요
어여쁜 신부와 집에 들어왔을 때 스물 네번 종을 울렸죠
시계는 멈추고 말았죠 울리지 않죠

할아버지가 돌아가시던 날 시계는 다시 울렸어요
부드럽고 조용한 소리로 그 시간을 알렸어요
보고 싶어라 우리 할아버지 언제나 다정한 그 모습
시계는 멈추고 말았죠 울리지 않죠

*.구십년 동안 언제나 똑딱똑딱
수를 재고 있었죠 똑딱똑딱
시계는 멈추고 말았죠 울리지 않죠 

   
-대장합150/늘 노래하는 친구들-