page_title: My Grandfather's Clock
section_title: Storyline
hierarchical_section_title: My Grandfather's Clock / Storyline
caption_attribution_description: English: Source description says: "The George Hotel&#160;: Piercebridge. 16th century coaching inn, on the south bank of the River Tees. The George is home to the famous grandfather clock, which inspired the 1780s song 'My Grandfather's clock'. The three arched bridge dates from 1789." The George Hotel is actually in Cliffe, Richmondshire.
context_page_description: "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. 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.
context_section_description: The song, told from a grandchild's point of view, is about their grandfather's clock.
  The clock is purchased on the morning of the grandfather's birth and works perfectly for 90 years, requiring only that it be wound at the end of each week.
  Yet the clock seems to eerily know the good and bad events in the grandfather's life – as it rings 24 chimes when the grandfather brings his bride into his house, and near his death it rings an eerie alarm, which the family recognizes to mean that the grandfather is near death and gathers by his bed.  After the grandfather dies, the clock suddenly stops, and never works again.
caption: It was in this Piercebridge hotel that the author encountered a remarkable clock that inspired the song.
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