Grandfather`s Clock-Burl Ives

Grandfather's Clock

 Burl Ives

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John Elsley(English Painter 1860~1952)

1.
My grandfather's clock was too tall 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.
It was bought on the morn 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..
(chorus) 
Ninety years without slumbering
(Tick, tock, tick, tock,) His life seconds numbering,
(Tick, tock, tick, tock) It stopp'd short,
Never to go again When the old man died.

2.

 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 the door,
With a blooming and beautiful bride.
But it stopp'd short, Never to go again, When the old man died..
(chorus)

3.
It rang an alarm in the dead of the night,
And alarm that for years had been dumb;
And we know that his spirit was pluming its flight,
That his hour of departure had come.
Still the clock kept the time, with a soft muffled chime,
As we silently stood by his side;
But it stopp'd short, Never to go again, When the old man died.
(chorus)

 

마루의 낡은 키다리 시계는 90년 된 할아버지의 옛날 시계.
할아버지가 태어나시던 날 아침에  우리 가족이 되었다네.
언제나 정다운 소리 들려 주던 할아버지의 옛날 시계.

하지만 지금은 가지를 않네. 이젠 더 이상 가지를 않네.

어여쁜 신부를 맞이하시던 날도 정겨운 종소리 울렸네.
할아버지의 기쁨과 슬픔을 함께 한 보물처럼 아끼던 시계.
이제는 들리지 않는 소리로만 시간을 얘기해 준다네.
할아버지의 고단했던 인생에 희망을 함께 하였던 시계.
언제나 인자하시던 할아버지의 미소와 사랑도 알고 있는 시계.
이제는 들리지 않는 소리로만 시간을 이야기 해준다네.

 

할아버지 영혼이 떠나시던 날 밤 요란한 소리로 울었던 시계.
하늘에 오르신 할아버지를 따라 시계는 이별을 했다네.
Ninety years without slumbering Tick Tock, Tick Tock
His life seconds numbering Tick Tock, Tick Tock.
이제는 헤어져야 할 때를 알았다네. 시계는 더 이상 가지를 않네

 

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