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Expert: Lou Simon - 10/28/2009
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i cant find lyrics to old song my dad used to sing to me---some of the words were--rattler was a good ol dog blind as he could be, but every night at supper time i believe that dog could see..... also another song ....the clock stopped never to go again when the old man died...
thank you
Answer
Hi Sally,
"Old Rattler" goes:
Rattler was a good old dog as blind as he could be
But every night at suppertime I believe that dog could see
Here Rattler here here Rattler here
Call old Rattler from the barn here Rattler here
Rattler braked the other night I thought he treed a coon
When I come to find him he's barkin' at the moon
Rattler was a friendly dog even though he was blind
He wouldn't hurt a living thing he was so very kind
One night I saw a big fat coon climb into a tree
I called Ol' Rattler right away to fetch him down for me
But Rattler wouldn't fetch for me because he liked that coon
I saw them walking paw in paw later by the light of the moon
Grandpa had a muley cow muley since she was born
It took a jaybird forty years to fly from horn to horn
Now old Rattler's dead and gone like all the good dogs do
Don't put on the dog yourself or you'll be going there too
"My Grandfather's Clock" goes:
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.
CHORUS:
Ninety years without slumbering,
Tick, tock, tick, tock,
His life seconds numbering,
Tick, tock, tick, tock,
It stopped short
Never to go again,
When the old man died.
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 at the door,
With a blooming and beautiful bride;
But it stopped short
Never to go again,
When the old man died.
CHORUS
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 hand never hung by its side.
But it stopped short
Never to go again,
When the old man died.
CHORUS
It rang an alarm
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 of 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.
And there ya have 'em!
Thanks for asking,
Lou
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