Johnny Cash - Songs Of Our Soil (1959) by Johnny Cash (보컬) on maniadb.com

My mama always taught me that good things come from adversity if we put our
faith in the Lord.
We couldn't see much good in the flood waters when they
were causing us to have to leave home,
But when the water went down, we found that it had washed a load

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 stopped short never to go again
when the old man died

Ninety years without slumbering
his life second's 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 second's numbering
It stopped short never to go again
when the old man died -