The Old Family Clock (George Alfred Grant-Schaefer)

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• (Posted 2023-10-23)  CPDL #76545:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-23).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 428 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Old Family Clock
Composer: George Alfred Grant-Schaefer
Lyricist: Mabel Chase Rundlett
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1922 Arthur P. Schmidt
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

I’m the dear old family clock,
And of our history will I talk,
Once, two little children gay
Passed the joyous hours in play,
With not a care, with hearts so light,
From morn till night.
Once a man and maiden fair,
Kissed each other on the stair,
My pendulum was nearly stopped,
My face into my hands I dropped,
Two old hearts still beat as one,
Though life’s journey’s nearly done,
And while they beat, I’ll tick away
from day to day.

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