My Grandfather’s Clock

"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. The Oxford English Dictionary says the song was the origin of the term "grandfather clock" for a longcase clock. In 1905, the earliest known recording of this song was performed by Harry Macdonough and the Haydn Quartet. The American music historians John T. Howard and George Kent Bellows claimed in 1967 that hardly any school songbook in the United States leaves out "Grandfather's Clock".

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