Song the Clock Stopped Never to Run Again

"Grand-Father's Clock" was first published in 1876.

"My Grandfather'due south Clock" is a song written in 1876 by Henry Clay Piece of work, the author of "Marching Through Georgia". It is a standard of British brass bands and colliery bands, and is as well pop in bluegrass music. The Oxford English Dictionary says the vocal was the origin of the term "grandfather clock" for a longcase clock.^[1] In 1905, the earliest known recording of this song was performed by Harry Macdonough and the Haydn Quartet (known and then as the "Edison Quartet").

Storyline [edit]

Information technology was in this Piercebridge hotel that the author encountered a remarkable clock that inspired the song.

The song, told from a grandchild'southward betoken of view, is nearly their grandpa's clock.

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

Yet the clock seems to eerily know the skillful and bad events in the grandfather's life – as information technology rings 24 chimes when the grandfather brings his bride into his firm, and near his death it rings an eerie alarm, which the family recognizes to mean that the granddad is near death and gathers by his bed. Subsequently the grandfather dies, the clock of a sudden stops, and never works again.

Sequel [edit]

Work published a sequel to the song two years after, and again the grandson acts every bit the narrator. The grandson laments the fate of the no-longer-operation gramps clock – it was sold to a junk dealer, who sold its parts for scrap and its case for kindling. In the grandad's house, the clock was replaced by a wall clock, which the grandson disdains (referring to it as "that vain, stuck-up thing on the wall"). However, the sequel never reached the popularity of the original.^[2]

The song was covered and translated many times, versions in other languages may vary. For case, in the Czech version, sung past the country band Taxmeni, the song continues with an additional, joyful strophe, narrating further events in the grandson's life: the nativity of his son and the purchase of a new clock on the same twenty-four hour period, to maintain the family tradition.^[3]

Covers and inspirations [edit]

"My Grandfather'south Clock" was oft played in Uk on Children'south Favourites and during that menstruation^{[ when? ]} was recorded by the Radio Revellers. In the United States, a version, without the last stanza of lyrics, was on an extended-play 45 rpm record on the Peter Pan characterization (the other song on that side was "The Syncopated Clock", and the flip side had "The Arkansas Traveler" and "Ruby-red River Valley"). Evelyn Knight recorded the song for Decca Records in 1945. Johnny Cash covered the vocal on his 1959 album Songs of Our Soil, as did Tennessee Ernie Ford on Gather 'Circular the aforementioned twelvemonth. Also in 1959, it was included on The 4 Lads' anthology, Swing Along. Other versions became popular in other countries; it is well known to many generations in Nihon, with a comprehend by singer Ken Hirai becoming massively pop in 2002.

In March 1961, on his album Swing Low, Sam Cooke did a rendition of the song.

Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his anthology 101 Gang Songs (1961).

The vocal was the inspiration for the 1963 Twilight Zone episode "Ninety Years Without Slumbering".

The Big 3 recorded the song in their anthology Live at the Recording Studio in 1964

A popular clock toy, marketed by Fisher-Price from 1962 to 1968, had a dial on it that, when turned, acquired the music box mechanism in the toy to play the song along with clock-like ticking and moving hands on the confront of the clock. An updated version of the toy (which is completely fabricated of plastic and with other activities like a clicking plastic mouse on the side) has been manufactured by Fisher-Cost since 1994. Imitations of the toy fabricated by various companies be and are sold in various countries worldwide.

Jon Pertwee recorded a version in 1966 for the children's album Children's Favourites, on the Music for Pleasure record label.

John Fahey recorded a solo guitar version on his 1967 anthology Days Have Gone By.^[four]

Joan Morris recorded it in 1975, on Who Shall Rule This American Nation (Nonesuch), an album of songs by Piece of work.

In 1983, Fred Penner, a Canadian children's entertainer, covered "My Grandad'due south Clock" on the LP album Special Delivery, which was subsequently rereleased as Ebenezer Sneezer on CD in 1994.

A version of the song was recorded by Red Grammer on his 1994 family music recording, Down The Do Re Mi.

It was parodied as "My Grandfather'southward Grunge" by the Kenneth Williams character Rambling Syd Rumpo on the BBC radio show Round the Horne.

Information technology was among the popular folk songs parodied by Allan Sherman in his medley song, "Shticks and Stones (Shticks of One, Half a Dozen of the Other)."

Garrison Keillor and the cast of the radio bear witness A Prairie Domicile Companion recorded a parody titled "My Grandmother'south Cat," telling the story of an erstwhile adult female who overfed her cat until it was large enough to knock her down and try to eat her.

The melody was used in the rail "I'm Non Edible" from the soundtrack of the 2000 game American McGee's Alice, composed by Nine Inch Nails drummer Chris Vrenna.

"My Granddad's Clock" is a playable song in the 2008 video game Wii Music.

This song was also used in the game, V Nights at Freddy's 2, made past Scott Cawthon, which was released on 10 November 2014. The chorus of the song plays whenever a music box is wound upwardly to go on one animatronic character away; whereas, the other antagonists are unaffected by it.

It was besides sung by Maple and Cinnamon in the third volume of Nekopara visual novel series.

Original Lyrics [edit]

The Metropolis Dark-green in Union Park of Middletown, Connecticut includes this bust of the author near his birthplace.

My granddad's clock was too large for the shelf,
So information technology stood ninety years on the flooring;
Information technology was taller by half than the onetime human himself,
Though it weighed not a pennyweight more.
It was bought on the morning of the day that he was born,
And was always his treasure and pride;
But it stopp'd short — never to go again —
When the old man died.

Ninety years without slumbering
(tick, tick, tick, tick),

His life seconds numbering,
(tick, tick, tick, tick),

It stopp'd curt — never to become again —

When the old homo 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 cute helpmate;
Simply information technology stopp'd brusk — never to go again —
When the old man died.

Ninety years without slumbering
(tick, tick, tick, tick),

His life seconds numbering,
(tick, tick, tick, tick),

Information technology stopp'd brusque — never to go again —

When the old man died.

My grandpa said that of those he could hire,
Not a servant then true-blue he found;
For it wasted no time, and had but 1 desire —
At the close of each week to be wound.
And information technology kept in its place — non a frown upon its face,
And its hands never hung by its side.
But information technology stopp'd brusque — never to go again —
When the one-time man died.

Xc years without slumbering
(tick, tick, tick, tick),

His life seconds numbering,
(tick, tick, tick, tick),

It stopp'd short — never to go once again —

When the old man died.

It rang an alarm in the expressionless of the night —
An alarm that for years had been dumb;
And we knew that his spirit was pluming for flight —
That his hour of difference had come.
Withal the clock kept the fourth dimension, with a soft and deadened chime,
As nosotros silently stood past his side;
Simply it stopp'd brusk — never to go again —
When the old homo died.

Xc years without slumbering
(tick, tick, tick, tick),

His life seconds numbering,
(tick, tick, tick, tick),

It stopp'd short — never to go again —

When the old man died.^{[five] [6]}

References [edit]

1. ^ "Oxford English Dictionary" (bachelor online to subscribers, also in impress) . Retrieved xix Apr 2009. Grandfather'southward clock [suggested by a vocal which was popular about 1880], a furniture-dealer'due south name for the kind of weight-and-pendulum eight-day clock in a tall case, formerly in common employ; too grandfather clock (now the usual name): [1876 H. C. Work Grandfather'due south Clock, My grandfather's clock was also large for the shelf, So it stood ninety years on the flooring.]
2. ^ "Sequel To MY GRANDFATHER'S CLOCK - 1878 - Tom Roush". 21 Jan 2015. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved seven November 2019 – via YouTube.
3. ^ Taxmeni (1977). "Dědečkovy hodiny". Archived from the original on 21 December 2021 – via YouTube. Czech encompass version of My Grandfather's Clock
4. ^ ELGROOVER (31 August 2009). "My Gramps's Clock - John Fahey". Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 10 March 2019 – via YouTube.
5. ^ Henry C. Piece of work (1876). "Grandfather'due south clock". New York: C. M. Cady. Retrieved 5 May 2012. original publication uses "tick, tick, tick, tick", "tock" was added after
6. ^ "History of the Grandfather Clock". The Clock Depot. Archived from the original on 16 March 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2012.

• Zecher, Henry (October 2005). "How an old floor clock became a grandad". The Pride of Olney (Lion'due south Society of Olney, Maryland) 30 (76). Retrieved 12 August 2013. on Henry Zecher'south personal website

External links [edit]

• Score
• 1905 recording from the Internet Annal
• Story of the clock
• {https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/granddaddy-clock.html}
• {https://findhistoryhere.com/history-of-the-grandad-clock}

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Grandfather%27s_Clock