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"My Grandfather's 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. It has also been sung by male choruses such as the Robert Shaw Chorale. ==Storyline== The song, told from a grandson's point of view, is about his grandfather's grandfather clock. The clock is purchased on the morning of his grandfather's 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. After 90 years, 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". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「My Grandfather's Clock」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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