Now, here is a real BLAST from the past, for us older folks ... My Grandfathers Clock is a song written in 1876 by Henry Clay Work, the author of Marching Through Georgia. It is a standard of British brass bands and colliery bands, and is also popular in bluegrass music. Storyline It was in this Piercebridge hotel that the author encountered a remarkable clock that inspired the song. The song, told from a grandsons point of view, is about his grandfathers grandfather clock. The clock is purchased on the morning of his grandfathers birth and works perfectly for ninety years, requiring only that it be wound at the end of each week. The clock rings 24 chimes when the grandfather brings his bride into his house; and before the grandfather dies, it rings an eerie alarm; the family recognizes that the grandfather is near death and gathers by his bed. When the grandfather dies, the clock suddenly stops, and never works again. The Oxford English Dictionary says that the song is responsible for the fact that a longcase clock is also called a grandfather clock. Sequel Henry Work published a sequel to the song two years after, where the clock is shown sold to a junk dealer, its parts sold for scrap and its case burned for kindling. In the grandfathers house, the clock was replaced by a wall clock. However, the sequel never reached the popularity of the original. youtube/watch?v=eWwTNQBRLxw&feature=player_detailpage
Posted on: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 21:05:06 +0000
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