The jacques clock company Hall clock Circa 1900 seven melodies on thirteen chime tubes represented as in original condition

The grandfather clock was too large for its shelf
So it stood ninety years on the floor.
It was taller by half than the old man himself
Though it weighed not a penny, weighed more.
 

It was bought on the morn of the day that he was born
'Twas always his pleasure and pride.
 

It stopped short, never to go again
When the old man died.
 

Ninety years without slumbering
Tick tock, tick tock
Life seconds numbering
Tick tock, tick tock.
 

It stopped short,
Never to go again
When the old man died.