大きなのっぽの古時計

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
though it weight not a pennyweight more
It was bought on the morn of the day that he was born
And was always his treasure and pride
But it stopped short never to go again
When the old man died

Ninety years without slumbering (tic tac tic tac)
His life's seconds numbering (tic tac tic tac)
But it stopped short never to go again
When the old man died.
日本語のチクタク・チクタクは英語からきたものでした。

参考リンク
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdQY7BusJNU  0:58 Lying in my bed I hear the clock tick, and think of you. 注；tick　は針が動くことで、その動く音が tic tac です。