My Grandfather's Clock

The clock is purchased on the morning of the grandfather's birth and works perfectly for 90 years, requiring only that it be wound at the end of each week.

[4] "My Grandfather's Clock" became well known in Japan in 1962 when the NHK children's music program, Minna no uta, broadcast the recording by Tachikawa Sumito.

[5] 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.

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.

Still the clock kept the time, with a soft and muffled chime, As we silently stood by his side; But it stopp'd short — never to go again — When the old man died.