GRANDFATHER'S CLOCK-1876 - Performed by Tom Roush

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  • Опубликовано: 1 дек 2024

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  • @oscillar.oscillator
    @oscillar.oscillator 4 года назад +487

    1876-Nov 10 2014: It’s quite peaceful but a little sad
    Nov 11 2014-present: WIND UP THE MUSIC BOX RIGHT NOW

  • @kathleenlenton6932
    @kathleenlenton6932 4 года назад +1261

    My Dad passed away last week at the age of 92. He would sing this to me when he tucked me in at night. It's a most cherished memory.

    • @greymarv3587
      @greymarv3587 4 года назад +45

      My grandfather sang this just days ago at the dinnertable. He has his own grandfathers clock and now I feel sad when i hear it.

    • @carolinagirl220
      @carolinagirl220 4 года назад +24

      Sorry to hear about you dad

    • @valeriecoley896
      @valeriecoley896 4 года назад +22

      I’m 77y/o my Grandfather sang to us when we were little, so happy to have found it.

    • @CanadianWildlifephotos
      @CanadianWildlifephotos 4 года назад +13

      I feel bad

    • @DavidSmith-em3gt
      @DavidSmith-em3gt 4 года назад +11

      Nice song Kathleen god bless ya dad and you to x from UK England

  • @valeriecoley896
    @valeriecoley896 6 лет назад +499

    I’m 75 y/o. My Grandfather sang this to us. So happy to have found it!

    • @averagetf2player277
      @averagetf2player277 4 года назад +15

      Valerie Coley that’s good, how are you doing?

    • @valeriecoley896
      @valeriecoley896 4 года назад +15

      DanielRBMC ! I’m doing well, thank you. Do I know you?

    • @valeriecoley896
      @valeriecoley896 4 года назад +5

      Thank you Mirial 🙏🏻. I’m doing well, thanks for asking. Hope you’re well too 😉😊. Grandfather’s clock is on a Music Box?

    • @valeriecoley896
      @valeriecoley896 4 года назад +4

      Mirial , thanks 🙏🏻. You’re the best. You’ll be the first to know when I get it🙏🏻😊😉❤️!

    • @UUdoubleU
      @UUdoubleU 4 года назад

      😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁 i know it's been 2 years since that comment but i'm still glad for you

  • @WhoisSupernerd
    @WhoisSupernerd 5 лет назад +402

    This song became very popular in Japan almost 90 years after it was composed. I thought that it is a Japanese song when I first heard it.

    • @GenuineDiscussion
      @GenuineDiscussion 4 года назад +22

      And now it's in Five Nights at Freddys 2. How sad

    • @rust5427
      @rust5427 4 года назад +8

      Wait seriosuly? I guess dark songs is really popular in jp

    • @charlescourtney4402
      @charlescourtney4402 4 года назад +9

      When I was traveling through Asia, I had a layover atTokyo/Narita Airport. I remember hearing this song while waiting for my flight.

    • @the9of741
      @the9of741 4 года назад +5

      It even appeared in the video game, Nekopara vol.3. the girl (Neko), Maple, sang it beutiful, but instead of a ragtime country type, it sounded more classical.

    • @clawcross
      @clawcross 4 года назад

      The same in korea too

  • @theblindingone7776
    @theblindingone7776 4 года назад +1647

    "It doesn't affect all of the animatronics, but it does affect... one of them."

  • @ottobaron6392
    @ottobaron6392 4 года назад +287

    This song was responsible for reviving the Long Case clock, and gave these clocks the names we know them by today. Prior to this song, this type of clock had fallen out of fashion, but between this song, and the centennial, these clocks made quite a comeback.

    • @jdga375
      @jdga375 3 года назад +10

      Fascinating. Thanks for the history lesson.

    • @Blue4uNowicka
      @Blue4uNowicka 3 года назад +7

      Fascinating background info! Thank you. I actually fell in love with this song from my fisher price toy as a toddler. Now, as a musician I have come here to learn it.

    • @Knappa22
      @Knappa22 2 года назад +3

      Interesting. I have one of these clocks in my house after my granny. It has the name Wm Hopkin Llandilo on the dial. No idea what it means (is this the maker or the owner?) or how old it is!

    • @ottobaron6392
      @ottobaron6392 2 года назад +3

      ​@@Knappa22 Willam Hopkin of Llandilo was a Welsh clock maker, who was born in 1848. Your clock could go as far back as the 1870s

    • @Knappa22
      @Knappa22 2 года назад +1

      @@ottobaron6392 Wow that's really interesting!

  • @keithnovak4317
    @keithnovak4317 4 года назад +84

    My grand father clock stop when my grandfather died at 7:05 one morning on his wall at the farm house, was Oct.22, 1963.

    • @UUdoubleU
      @UUdoubleU 4 года назад +3

      Im sorry to hear that. May he rest in peace

    • @bloxkeiy7683
      @bloxkeiy7683 4 года назад

      Noob

    • @UUdoubleU
      @UUdoubleU 4 года назад +17

      @@bloxkeiy7683 dude shut up

    • @Vigriff
      @Vigriff 4 года назад +3

      My condolences for your loss.

    • @UltraVioletLite
      @UltraVioletLite 3 года назад +6

      @@bloxkeiy7683 you have no heart...

  • @Peace2U-ec6es
    @Peace2U-ec6es 8 месяцев назад +12

    I haven't heard this song played in over 50 years, but it was a song I had to sing when I was in junior high school.
    The music teacher was one of my favorites, and this song has always remained in my heart. Thanks for posting this!

  • @the_epic_memer553
    @the_epic_memer553 2 года назад +927

    as a nightguard at a pizza place, this saved me from some weird looking puppet falling out of its box. idk why the puppet falls out when the song isn't played but if it means the doll doesn't get damaged i'll play it all night

    • @leafenbark6695
      @leafenbark6695 2 года назад +40

      Hey how's the nights going? I've heard of rumors that nightguards used to go missing in old locations of the pizza place, hope you doing a good job bud

    • @the_epic_memer553
      @the_epic_memer553 2 года назад +41

      @@leafenbark6695 made it. quit the job tho after some weird malfunction made freddy move from stage to my hall. but other than that im fine

    • @madkirk7431
      @madkirk7431 2 года назад +20

      I love it when people roleplay in the comment of things that are related to a popular thing

    • @latifafauziahafrizon3678
      @latifafauziahafrizon3678 2 года назад +9

      @@madkirk7431 yeah took me awhile that it is Fnaf

    • @bukola2371
      @bukola2371 2 года назад +5

      it makes sense because in fnaf 6 henry was an old man and the puppet is his son so lol

  • @rezrick9
    @rezrick9 7 лет назад +175

    Thank you Tom, I am 70, we listened to this song in music class when I was in grade school in Littleton, Colorado. Thank You very much!! Rick Marlowe

    • @MusicOfTomRoush
      @MusicOfTomRoush  7 лет назад +29

      Rick Thank you for your generous comment! I hope that the music brought you fond memories, Tom

    • @janalamanna9224
      @janalamanna9224 4 года назад +7

      I am 8 and I have been listening to it for my Whole life

    • @Dah_Vigilante
      @Dah_Vigilante 4 года назад +4

      @@janalamanna9224 because of fnaf im guessing?

    • @jacktheflash8478
      @jacktheflash8478 4 года назад +1

      dahmagicman roit445 possibly

    • @UUdoubleU
      @UUdoubleU 4 года назад +1

      @@Dah_Vigilante fnaf 2 came out around 5 years ago, if they were listening for their whole life, they were listeniing before fnaf 2

  • @jeandickman4193
    @jeandickman4193 2 года назад +106

    My 89 year old mother had inhered her father's grandfathers clock. When he died she kept the clock at her house. When she died I got to have my favorite clock and it now stands graciously in my living room. I am 86 yrs. old (2022) now and love being able to pull up the chimes every day. At my mother's we sang this song a lot! Now I and my kids still sing it, a lot! I'm so glad, I love this terrific song, Thanks so very, very much!!! God bless and you're in my daily prayers now.
    Jean Grasse Dickman 87 in the coming July

  • @inconsistentlysleepy
    @inconsistentlysleepy 2 года назад +101

    Would love this on a music box… such a happy and lively song

    • @GroupNebula563
      @GroupNebula563 2 года назад +35

      charlotte emily confirmed

    • @that_one_libra419.9
      @that_one_libra419.9 Год назад +4

      I got one recently, also came with this gift box that wouldn't open if the music box was playing. What is strange is that we I found it open the first night, nothing was inside. Probably nothing.

    • @AJjr636
      @AJjr636 Год назад

      @@that_one_libra419.9what part of the song is the puppets music box melody?

    • @that_one_libra419.9
      @that_one_libra419.9 Год назад

      @@AJjr636 From "90 years without slumbering..." to "when the old man died..."

    • @GnG07
      @GnG07 Год назад

      ​@@AJjr636 0:48

  • @hmmmlemmesee7621
    @hmmmlemmesee7621 5 лет назад +270

    Wind up music box
    Hold & click

  • @BillyDBunny
    @BillyDBunny 5 лет назад +178

    I don't know if Tom Roush is a musician with a love of history or a historian with a love of music. This guy is a national resource.

    • @harrylane4
      @harrylane4 4 года назад +4

      Por que no los dos

    • @BillyDBunny
      @BillyDBunny 4 года назад +3

      @@harrylane4 Por supuesto. ¿Por qué no los dos? Estúpido de mi parte!

    • @BillyDBunny
      @BillyDBunny 3 года назад +2

      La música trasciende todo lenguaje, y este es un gran ejemplo de maravillosa poesía y melodía.

    • @BillyDBunny
      @BillyDBunny 3 года назад +1

      Es maravilloso para mí porque no sé mucha música y tengo un mundo del que aprender.@⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻

    • @stanislawgan8396
      @stanislawgan8396 Год назад +1

      @@BillyDBunny Agree very much😌

  • @BREAKOUT444
    @BREAKOUT444 5 месяцев назад +22

    This was the last song my grandfather remembered how to play on guitar as dementia slowly took him away.
    Crazy this is what the lyrics are.

  • @alistairmcelwee7467
    @alistairmcelwee7467 2 года назад +53

    My father died last month and he sang this to me so many times. He was 82. Apparently his grandfather had sung it to him.I had no idea this song is so old. Thanks a bunch for posting this.

  • @1Oldroot
    @1Oldroot 11 месяцев назад +7

    ah yes, the good Ol 'classic. Rest in piece tom roush

  • @debbiekerr3989
    @debbiekerr3989 Год назад +8

    My great-uncle would sing this to me when I was a little girl. Such a gentle person and I still miss him. He died in 1998.

  • @rinty04
    @rinty04 5 лет назад +30

    We used to sing this at school in the 60's.. thanks for sharing

  • @DaDrawBoi
    @DaDrawBoi 3 месяца назад +10

    The old man died, but he came back.
    He always does.

  • @billowen2354
    @billowen2354 3 года назад +19

    In 1962, when I was born my father bought my mother a hand crafted Grandfathers clock. It took over a year for the works to be imported from Germany. It was the centerpiece of our living room as I grew up and dad wound it religiously every week. The clock wound down and stopped precisely at the time of his death. It is now in my home and my most prized possession. Thank you for the full song. It is rare to hear it all. The tune has been a favorite of mine since childhood.

  • @PhilSymes-p6k
    @PhilSymes-p6k 4 месяца назад +9

    I cant get this song out of my head.
    I knew it when the few people who cared about me were still alive before they all passed and I know where the legend comes from as well.
    The head of the house was the only person only allowed to wind the clock in the 19th century.
    When they died that wad it.
    The clock stopped.
    Like life.
    😔

  • @charltonnorah964
    @charltonnorah964 Год назад +18

    I am so glad to have found this. My sister received one of those Fisher Price Teaching Clock. It had a nice melody. One night my mother wound up the clock and started singing words to the clock. She had a beautiful voice. She was a music person, piano and organ. She has been gone since 2020 due to Covid. Years later, after my sister had grown, she gave the clock to my brother for his sons. So when I saw one at a thrift store I knew I had to have it. Now hearing all the words, it brings my mother back to life, even for a few minutes.

  • @boxerrebellion1509
    @boxerrebellion1509 Год назад +3

    Hearing this old song makes me cry, what a song

  • @artemisarrow179
    @artemisarrow179 2 года назад +339

    Imagine going back to the 1870’s and telling this guy that one day this song will be synonymous with haunted killer robots

    • @westonkirsch2344
      @westonkirsch2344 2 года назад +6

      No kidding

    • @davefoot
      @davefoot 2 года назад +30

      "what's a robot good sir?"

    • @xX_Pokeman_Xx
      @xX_Pokeman_Xx 2 года назад +13

      @@davefoot If he knew Czech enough, he might know the Czech root word robota, but that wouldn't really help you because it meant "forced labor," so you'd STILL have to properly define robots. Could use the word automata though, since that has been a term since the 1600s and has roughly meant "lifeless device acting on itself" for the longest time.

    • @davefoot
      @davefoot 2 года назад +12

      @@xX_Pokeman_Xx "Why would forced labor be haunted and be murderous?"

    • @Tomlin4014
      @Tomlin4014 2 года назад +2

      so if the clock stops when he dies...how would he react if i told him that?

  • @Kelichijouji
    @Kelichijouji 5 лет назад +140

    I was one of the saddened ones when you took this song down before and I messaged you about my newborn loving this song and it being the only thing that would calm her down some nights.
    She's three years old now, and we just rocked while she listened to this song again. To this day, she loves it! Thank you so much! 💖
    Edit to add: baby 3 is 3 months old. She's been fussy (was sick with Covid, like our whole house), and wouldn't stop crying. I thought of this song, and it out her right to sleep as well. I can't thank you enough for this!

    • @susanluthye6265
      @susanluthye6265 2 года назад +4

      My grand daughter is also strangely calmed by this song. From birth to now, almost 7 months!

  • @joybaxter5039
    @joybaxter5039 8 лет назад +71

    Thank you Tom for bringing back my wonderful childhood memories of a dear gentleman who played the banjo for us.

  • @circleo1992
    @circleo1992 2 года назад +151

    If you think about it, The lyrics of this song might have actually inspired Scott to make the music box in FNAF 2. The song says that the clock stopped and never went again when the old man died. In FNAF 2, If the music box stops, the player dies. In addition, the line, "90 years without slumbering" references the fact that FNAF involves working a night shift. If you think about it, all the people who worked at the Freddy Fazbear's locations probably got insomnia. They were haunted by the horrors that they got while working, which prevented them from sleeping much.

    • @olivegem6853
      @olivegem6853 Год назад +19

      That’s a cool way to look at it! I kinda feel like the parts where they describe how the clock is a great servant is like describing the puppet. It only wants the music box wound, always has a smile on its face. The idea that it’s a machine linked to a person’s soul is conceptually pretty similar to the franchise as a whole.

    • @craftusmaximus
      @craftusmaximus Год назад +4

      I think you're thinking to much about it lol
      Good observant tho

    • @guilhermxd
      @guilhermxd Год назад +5

      music isnt scott's, almost everything in FNAF 1 and 2 he bought because he hadn't money and wasnt a sound designer

    • @FireHomie_editz
      @FireHomie_editz Год назад +5

      Bros matpat💀

    • @KnockoffYT
      @KnockoffYT 11 месяцев назад +1

      rip in rest jeremy 😢

  • @NfCyne
    @NfCyne Месяц назад +2

    My grandfather passed away when i was six. He also owns a vintage pendulum clock and it still works until now. Now i'm 19 and i remember him everytime i heard this song. I miss him❤

  • @mrff5975
    @mrff5975 7 лет назад +44

    The last verse is just chilling every time I listen to it!
    Great job Tom!

  • @morabhut8192
    @morabhut8192 3 года назад +60

    My grandfather's clock was too large 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 stopped, short never to go again
    When the old man died
    Ninety years without slumbering
    His life seconds numbering
    It stopped, short never to go again
    When the old man died
    My grandfather said that of those he could hire
    Not a servant so faithful he found
    For it wasted no time and had but one desire
    At the close of each week to be wound
    And it kept in its place, not a frown upon its face
    And its hands never hung by its side
    But it stopped short, never to go again
    When the old man died
    It rang and alarmed in the dead of the night
    An alarm that for years had been dumb
    And we knew that his spirit was pluming for flight
    That his hour for departure had come
    Still the clock kept the time with a soft and muffled chime
    As we silently stood by his side
    But it stopped short, never to go again
    When the old man died
    Ninety years without slumbering
    His life seconds numbering
    It stopped short, never to go again
    When the old man died
    ._. nothing just because I wanted to sing along

    • @jacklow9611
      @jacklow9611 Год назад

      Thank you for posting the full lyrics, even though they are seen in the video.

  • @concorde2003
    @concorde2003 5 лет назад +21

    This is the song that the Fisher Price Tick Tock Teaching Clock plays! Listening to this really chokes me up. Awesome.

    • @bencurry3044
      @bencurry3044 3 года назад +5

      wow. Someone else remembers that too. I used to have one, but now, the music part broke. It's really nostalgic to me.

  • @BillyDBunny
    @BillyDBunny 7 лет назад +20

    Whenever I need a good cry, it is either this or the Velveteen Rabbit. Just awesome.

  • @timprichard5137
    @timprichard5137 4 года назад +14

    Hearing this made me cry. It's been at least 30 years since I've heard this, as it was one of my favorites as a little child.
    Bless you.

    • @er_dragosaurus_rex
      @er_dragosaurus_rex 4 года назад +3

      This song made me cry too, i remember my childhood during 1860 when me and my friends sang it when we didn't know what to do

    • @jacktheflash8478
      @jacktheflash8478 4 года назад +2

      TeddyBear69 1860?

  • @arashikashu5421
    @arashikashu5421 Год назад +6

    My grandfather loved this song. If he'd lived just a little bit longer, he'd have made his 90th birthday. I've never actually heard a recording of it, just family sing alongs, so thank you for sharing.

  • @casperdeghost3519
    @casperdeghost3519 2 года назад +3

    My dad passed Jan 2nd this was his fav song in the world..... We sung this every new years at our house

  • @nolanbowen8800
    @nolanbowen8800 Год назад +1

    When I was a kid we used to sing this great old song in school. I'd forgotten about it until RUclips showed it. It was wonderful to hear it and sing along with it after all these years.

  • @deewesthill1358
    @deewesthill1358 3 года назад +8

    I'm nearly 70 years old and first heard this beautiful song at age 7 in my second grade class when our teacher taught it to us, but only right now have i found out it was written by the author of "Marching Through Georgia" and "Nicodemus The Slave". Those are such different songs.

  • @michaelhalsall5684
    @michaelhalsall5684 2 года назад +8

    I haven't heard this song since I was at primary school. I had no idea of its origin and I didn't know when it was written. This song still sounds good after all this time!

  • @merenaa.2746
    @merenaa.2746 3 года назад +5

    I always used to play this on my cheap keyboard as a tween. I have always loved these old-timey songs. I remember a video of me as a baby of my great grandfather singing along to this song to a music box I was playing with. He passed away at 90 as well.

  • @joijaxx
    @joijaxx 3 года назад +5

    What a lovely memory from grade school chorus, thank you!

  • @urmomisgay916
    @urmomisgay916 2 года назад +8

    This song is so Calming for some reason...

  • @akgypsy54
    @akgypsy54 5 месяцев назад +3

    🥹🥰haven’t heard this song since I was little girl!! Thanks for sharing this!! 🎶♥️

  • @kimlengning8859
    @kimlengning8859 4 года назад +12

    I learned this song in elementary school. I never knew it more than one verse. Thank you for posting this!

  • @jaehi8930
    @jaehi8930 4 года назад +5

    My great grandmother used to sing this and when think of her I play this song... rest up momma I love you 💞

  • @mahag951
    @mahag951 3 года назад +2

    Growing up in Ghana 🇬🇭. We used to sing this song almost every other morning in school before classes began. #Memories ♥

  • @Frankyz84
    @Frankyz84 5 лет назад +24

    This was a song from my childhood, and now having heard it once again, i am adding it to my set list.

  • @lizday8140
    @lizday8140 3 года назад +4

    My Grandmother had a song book...treasured old favorites...Aunt Dinah's Quilting Party was our second favorite, but this was the best!
    I used to sing it with her while she played guitar or piano, and she couldn't get to the end of the chorus without crying.
    We would both start laughing, but she would laugh and cry her way through the rest.
    Now she has passed on a year and a half ago, at almost 90 years old, and I am the one crying - and laughing, in sweet memory of her...ALL the way through the song!

  • @jaredjadonkane300
    @jaredjadonkane300 3 года назад +7

    Fabulous version, thanks.

  • @firi_best_boi
    @firi_best_boi 3 года назад +3

    I played this in band for our concert in 4th or 5th grade, haven’t heard it since, so glad I found it again, nostalgia 100

  • @rezrick9
    @rezrick9 7 лет назад +9

    I still listen every two or three days. Thank You again Tom. Rick

  • @donaidtrump8036
    @donaidtrump8036 2 года назад +8

    RIP Tom Roush :(

  • @edhenderson1655
    @edhenderson1655 Месяц назад +1

    I just found this. I'm very familar with this song and really like it but I haven't heard it in maybe 50 years! Thank you so much for posting it!

  • @rmc2001
    @rmc2001 2 года назад +3

    Was out today and heard this song being whistled. Havnt heard it since I was young but recognized it straight away. If I had any kind of singing voice I would have sung along with the whistler

  • @maddalenacombs9809
    @maddalenacombs9809 3 года назад +2

    Always loved this song as my father loved these clocks of his grandfathers. This song is so precious.

  • @LynnLight
    @LynnLight 4 года назад +2

    My baby sitter, in childhood taught me When The Old Man Died, and I was surprised to find the words and music here on RUclips. I should not have been really. Never have I seen such an archive of everything, as here on RUclips.

  • @shannonn2569
    @shannonn2569 3 года назад +2

    This is still beautiful..I know how it feels when you lose someone it's beautiful cause of memories..but sad at the same time..

  • @TheSpikeg76
    @TheSpikeg76 Год назад +1

    Best version ever. Amazing.

  • @josephinetabone5297
    @josephinetabone5297 8 лет назад +8

    I simply love listening to these songs. Well done Tom Roush!

  • @christopherdiaz4680
    @christopherdiaz4680 4 года назад +8

    This song was on the fisher price toy the teaching clock back in the day. I had one as a child.

  • @mariowoite8312
    @mariowoite8312 8 лет назад +3

    very beautiful song...thank you Tom.

  • @jacklow9611
    @jacklow9611 Год назад +2

    I've known this song since I was young, but it wasn't until fairly recently that I learned it had the fourth verse. I know the rest of it by heart, so now I'll have to listen to it over and over so I can learn the words of the fourth verse.
    I never realized that it was written so many years ago.

  • @denisealvesbarreto9097
    @denisealvesbarreto9097 6 лет назад +2

    Tic tac!!!the music live forever!wonderful banjo

  • @susanluthye6265
    @susanluthye6265 2 года назад +4

    This is the only song that calms my infant granddaughter.

  • @skcordnasnioc0012
    @skcordnasnioc0012 8 лет назад +9

    This is beautiful.. God bless you!

  • @ch-xl3xm
    @ch-xl3xm 2 года назад +1

    We learned this song many years ago in school in Music Class a good memory.

  • @jmannky402
    @jmannky402 8 лет назад +10

    great to see this classic hasn't died!

  • @mihispemdedisti
    @mihispemdedisti 7 лет назад +6

    I learned how to play this on the piano when I was a little kid. Even at a very young age, this song always made me sad and wistful. Nice to listen to it here.

  • @KayGallaHitched
    @KayGallaHitched 4 года назад +2

    This is one of my all time favorite folk songs!!!

  • @LivingCrusader
    @LivingCrusader 8 лет назад +33

    This is one of my favorite songs. Thanks for performing it and re-uploading it Mr. Roush.

  • @ruthysim
    @ruthysim 8 лет назад +5

    Love this song Tom!

  • @coffeehubby
    @coffeehubby 3 года назад +3

    My father told me this story before the song came out. Perhaps it was a folk story that got passed around. But it's a favorite memory

    • @athull08
      @athull08 3 года назад +3

      But the song was released in 1876

  • @Clarinetboy82
    @Clarinetboy82 6 лет назад +19

    I've heard a few country music stars perform this song. Your recording is the best I've heard. An aside, Rod Serling had an entire Twilight Zone episode based off of this song.

  • @PhilSymes-p6k
    @PhilSymes-p6k 16 дней назад +1

    I love this song. Goodbye Dad.

  • @dhy5342
    @dhy5342 2 года назад +3

    by Henry Clay Work
    I don't know why, but this song raises some serious emotions in me. It's a beautiful song that tells a great story, and Tom's rendition of it is perfect.

    • @athull08
      @athull08 2 года назад

      It's partially based on a true story. The real life clock that inspired this song is housed very near to where I live.

  • @Dix424USA4
    @Dix424USA4 6 лет назад +1

    All I can say is I'm so thankful to find you Tom Roush..

  • @JoanneDwyer-e8i
    @JoanneDwyer-e8i 10 месяцев назад

    I musta been about 6 years old when i first heard this. Not heatd it since till now. Brings back memories from primary school.

  • @plasticbucket
    @plasticbucket Год назад +1

    This brings back memories

  • @chipsdubbo4861
    @chipsdubbo4861 8 лет назад +11

    Beautiful.

  • @baritasaragih9226
    @baritasaragih9226 4 года назад +3

    My fav song since I was at a primary school. I like this tune very much up to this very minute. What a country vocal of Tom Roush ! Regards from Jakarta Indonesia.

  • @joannflanagan396
    @joannflanagan396 Месяц назад +2

    Love that song.

  • @dawntobin6463
    @dawntobin6463 5 лет назад +1

    When we were little we had lovely singing sessions and my darling Dad used to sing this song...memories❤❤❤Thanks

  • @jtimmons1588
    @jtimmons1588 3 года назад +1

    I sang this alongside my mom as she played the piano as a kid in the1960s. Was a sad song then, and in my old age now, can still bring me to tears thinking about my two wonderful grandfathers, as well as my mom. Thanks for posting. Beautiful.

  • @CoRektOh
    @CoRektOh 8 лет назад +4

    Damn. That was beautiful. Thank you Tom.

  • @cherylmavrikos6550
    @cherylmavrikos6550 2 года назад +2

    What a beautiful song! My mother, who is 90, and I always counted it among our favorites. Now it brings tears to my eyes. Thank you so much for posting it! Precious memory!

  • @kentuckylady2990
    @kentuckylady2990 Год назад

    Learned this in grade school in the 1950s. I would get a little teary eyed when singing it.

  • @jennyleishman9617
    @jennyleishman9617 Год назад

    I love this song it never ages..we sang it as children and we still sing it, brilliant.

  • @marialiglesias1699
    @marialiglesias1699 3 года назад +2

    I heard this song as sung by Korean duo Twin Follo. I never understood the lyrics but I love the melody. So glad to find this original English version. Thanks for posting.

  • @michaelbauers8800
    @michaelbauers8800 9 месяцев назад +1

    Such a cheery song, given the lyrical content. But pleased to be learning how grandfather clocks got their name

  • @siremine2192
    @siremine2192 8 лет назад +4

    this song is absolutely beautiful. You did great Tom Roush!

  • @kylargraf6762
    @kylargraf6762 Год назад

    My favorite song that my retired missionary Grandpa Bill Graf plays on the accordion for me. Thank you so much 💓! This is great!!!

  • @SMIHEARTSTARZZ
    @SMIHEARTSTARZZ 4 года назад +11

    i genuinely know about the existence of fnaf, and i would usually be the one to make a joke about something like this, but like this song fr it sounds so nice and upbeat but at the same time, the words are so dark and sad and for some reason, it fits perfectly and its just bhjbhjndsdfjf
    this song i stg its so nice

  • @theneoncrew3741
    @theneoncrew3741 7 лет назад +2

    so talented this song is I good one thank you tom

  • @ianedmonds9191
    @ianedmonds9191 Год назад

    I learned this song in primary school in the UK. No idea why but it's stayed with me for 35+ years.

  • @HighlandCowboy01
    @HighlandCowboy01 8 лет назад +8

    Thank you for re-uploading this song.

  • @davidrowinski2160
    @davidrowinski2160 Год назад +2

    Thanks, Tom for doing this. It is rare to find a cover of all 4 verses.

  • @lisanord687
    @lisanord687 5 лет назад +8

    Love this song

  • @jadaatkinson1201
    @jadaatkinson1201 11 месяцев назад

    I'm a woman of 40 now, but as a little girl my mother would sing this as a lullabye. Thank you for posting. I never knew the other verses.

  • @natalya6091
    @natalya6091 4 года назад +1

    Good evening!Thank you for incredible rhyme.Sheer joy!

    • @MusicOfTomRoush
      @MusicOfTomRoush  4 года назад

      Thank you, Natalya

    • @natalya6091
      @natalya6091 4 года назад +1

      @@MusicOfTomRoush We enjoy you exciting videos every day.These English songs are pretty and beautiful.Where're you from originally?What did you graduate from?Greetings from Moscow,Russia.🇷🇺

    • @MusicOfTomRoush
      @MusicOfTomRoush  4 года назад

      @@natalya6091 I'm originally West Virginia USA I attended 2 years of music college but never graduated

    • @natalya6091
      @natalya6091 4 года назад +1

      @@MusicOfTomRoush Thank you so much.Love you and your great channel.

    • @natalya6091
      @natalya6091 4 года назад

      Morning dear Tom.What about elections?Are you happy?Best wishes to you.🇺🇸🇷🇺

  • @mariafatimapais7499
    @mariafatimapais7499 2 месяца назад

    I learnt this in school - that was a long time ago. I loved this song