The story of the song of My Grandfather's Clock:
Over 100 years ago in Piercebridge, North Yorkshire, England, there was a quaint country lodge known as the
In the lobby stood a floor clock, as they were called back in those days, that had been there for many years. One unusual characteristic on the old clock was that it kept very good time. This was uncommon, since in those days clocks were generally not noted for their accuracy.
One day, one of the brothers died and suddenly the old clock started losing time. At first it lost 15 minutes per day but when several clocksmiths gave up trying to repair the ailing timepiece, it was losing more than an hour each day.
The clocks incurable problem became as talked about as its precision had been. Some said it was no surprise that, though fully wound, the old clock stopped when the surviving brother died at the age of ninety.
The new manager of the hotel never attempted to have it repaired. He just left it standing in a sunlit corner of the lobby, its hands resting in the position they assumed the moment the last Jenkins brother died.
About 1875, an American songwriter named Henry Work happened to be staying at the
"Oh my grandfather's clock was too tall for the shelf so it stood ninety years on the floor. It was taller by half than the old man himself, though it weighed no a pennyweight more..."
Until that time, clocks such as the one in the old George Hotel were referred to by a variety of names, but not before Henry Work wrote his song, over a hundred years ago, were they referred to as grandfather clocks.
1. Rare Recording by Johnny Cash
2. Grandfather's Clock - 平井堅
3. 大きな古時計 [ 日文 ] - 平井堅
4. Rock Version of My Grandfather's Clock
My grandfather's clock Lyric:
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 that he was born,
And was always his treasure and pride;
But it stopped short
Never to go again,
When the old man died.
Ninety years without slumbering,
Tick, tock, tick, tock,
His life seconds numbering,
Tick, tock, tick, tock,
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 and manhood
The clock seemed to know,
And to share both his grief and his joy.
For it struck twenty-four
When he entered at the door,
With a blooming and beautiful bride;
But 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;
For it wasted no time,
And had but one desire,
At the close of each week to be wound.
And it kept in its place,
Not a frown upon its face,
And its hand never hung by its side.
But it stopped short
Never to go again,
When the old man died.
It rang an alarm
In the dead of the night,
An alarm that for years had been dumb;
And we knew that his spirit
Was pluming his flight,
That his hour of departure had come.
Still the clock kept the time,
With a soft and muffled chime,
As we silently stood by his side.
But it stopped short
Never to go again,
When the old man died.
日文歌词 : 大きな古時計
(1) 大きなのっぽの古時計 おじいさんの時計
百年いつも動いていた ご自慢の時計さ
おじいさんの生まれた朝に 買ってきた時計さ
今はもう動かない その時計
百年休まずに チクタクチクタク
おじいさんと一緒に チクタクチクタク
今はもう動かない その時計
(2) 何でも知ってる古時計 おじいさんの時計
綺麗な花嫁やってきた その日も動いてた
嬉しいことも悲しいことも みな知ってる時計さ
今はもう動かない その時計
嬉しいことも悲しいことも みな知ってる時計さ
今はもう動かない その時計
(3) 真夜中にベルが鳴った おじいさんの時計
お別れの時が来たのを 皆に教えたのさ
天国に昇るおじいさん 時計ともお別れ
今はもう動かない その時計
百年休まずに チクタクチクタク
おじいさんと一緒に チクタクチクタク
今はもう動かない その時計
今はもう動かない その時計
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