The clock stands still
While the hands go round
One o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock, four o'clock,
five o'clock, six o'clock, seven o'clock, eight o'clock,
nine o'clock, ten o'clock, eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock.
(this is a skipping chant)
Grandma's going to the grocery store, 1 2 3 4.
Grandma's going to the grocery store, 1 2 3 4.
Who's going? Grandma's going.
Who's going? Grandma's going.
Where's she going? To the grocery store. 1 2 3 4.
When's she going? At a quater after four. 1 2 3 4.
What's she going to buy at the grocery store. 1 2 3 4.
What's she going to buy at the grocery store. 1 2 3 4.
A loaf of bread, a bottle of milk, a big bag of cookies and a little can of peas.
A loaf of bread, a bottle of milk, a big bag of cookies and a little can of peas.
Grandma's going to the grocery store, 1 2 3 4.
Grandma's going to the grocery store, 1 2 3 4.
Hickory dickory dock,
The mouse ran up the clock,
The clock struck one
The mouse ran down,
Hickory dickory dock.
Hickory dickory dock,
The mouse ran up the clock,
The clock struck two
The mouse ran down,
Hickory dickory dock.
It's time to go to bed, What time is it?
It's time to go to bed, What time is it?
It's time to go to bed, I don't want to go to bed.
You have to go to bed, I don't want to go to bed .
You've got to go to bed, I don't want to go to bed.
You must go to bed, I don't want to go to bed. I'm not sleepy I'm not sleepy.
It's time to get up, What time is it?
It's time to get up, What time is it?
It's time to get up, I don't want to get up.
You have to get up. I don't want to get up.
You've got to get up. I don't want to get up.
You must get up. I don't want to get up. I don't want to get up.
I'm sleepy I'm sleepy.
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
Yet it weighed not a pennyweight more
It was bought on the morn on the day that he was born
It 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's seconds numbering
Tick tock tick tock
But it stopped short,
Never to run again
When the old man died
In watching its pendulum swing to and fro
Many hours he had spent when a boy
And through childhood and manhood, the clock seemed to know
And to share both his grief and his joy
For it struck 24 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
Tick tock tick tock
Not a servant so faithful he'd found,
Tick tock tick tock
For it kept perfect time
And it had one desire
At the close of each day to be wound
At it kept to its place, not a frown upon its face
At its hands never hung by its side
But it stopped, short, never to go again
When the old man died
It rang an alarm in the still 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
CHORUS:
Still the clock kept the time
Tick tock tick tock
With a soft and muffled chime
Tick tock tick tock
As we silently stood by his side
But it stopped, short, never to go again
When the old man died
Tick tock, tick tock,
I'm a little cuckoo clock.
Tick tock, tick tock,
Stop!
What time is it?
It's one o'clock.
Cuckoo!
Tick tock, tick tock,
I'm a little cuckoo clock.
Tick tock, tick tock.
Stop!
What time is it?
It's two o'clock.
Cuckoo! Cuckoo!
Tick tock..............
Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town,
Upstairs and downstairs in his night-gown,
Rapping at the window, crying through the lock,
Are the children all in bed, for now it's eight o'clock.
