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Level 1 Piano notes

Song: My Grandfather’s Clock
Artist: Johnny Cash
Album: Songs of Our Soil
Released: 1959
Link to original: https://youtu.be/K0o8A4RccUY

Key: G Major
Beat: 4|4
Chords:
G Major – G B D
D Major – D F# A
C Major – C E G
A Major – A C# E


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Verse:

My    grandfather's 
D – | G – F# G | 
    | G        | 

clock was too 
A – G A |
D       |

large for the shelf So it
B – C B | E - - A A |
G       | C         |

stood ninety years on the
G – G G | F# -  E F# |
G       | D          |

Floor         It was
G - - -| - -  D D | 
G      | G        |

taller by half than the 
G – F# G | A – GA |
G        | D      |

old man himself Though it
B – C B  | E -  A A | 
G        | C        | 

weighed not a pennyweight
G – G G  | F# F# E F# | 
G        | D          |

More         It was
G - - - | - - B C |
G       | G       |

bought on the morn of the
D – B A     | G – F# G |
G           | G        |

day that he was born And was
A G F# E     | D – B C | 
D            | G       |

always his treasure and
D – B A | G – F# G |
G       | A        |

Pride        But it
A - - - | - - D D |
D       | D       |

stopped,   short
G - - -  | A - - - |
G        | D       |

never to go again When the
B B B – C B | D -  A A |
G           | C        |

old      man     died
G - -- |F# - - |G - - -| 
G      |D      |G      |

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Chorus:

Ninety years without 
- D D | G – D D | 
      | G       |

Slumbering 
E E D -  | 
C        |

tick tock tick tock His
B -  D – | B – D D |
G        | G       |

life seconds numbering
G – D D  | E  E D - | 
G        | C        |

Tick tock tick tock
B – D – | B – D D |
G       | G       |

It stopped, short 
G - - - | A - - - | 
G       | D       |

never to go again When the
B B B – C B |E - A A |
G           |C       |

old man died   
G  - - -|F# - - -|G - - -|
G       |D       |G      |
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