My Grandfather’s clock 我爺爺的鐘

“清明時節雨紛紛，路上行人欲斷魂。”清明節是我國最重要的祭祀節日，在這一天我們尋根問祖、緬懷先人。清明節到來之際，讓我們一起聆聽《我爺爺的鐘》這首歌，它圍繞爺爺心愛的時鐘，講述了老人一生的故事，寄托著對故去之人的無盡思念。你的家里是否也有一兩件意義非凡的“老物件”？它們讓你想起了誰？

小挑戰：欣賞歌曲，并參考歌詞大意，將歌詞補充完整。

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

But it weighed not a penny-weight

It was bought on the morn of 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

Ninety years without slumbering

Ticktock ticktock

His life seconds

Ticktock ticktock

It stopped， short， never to go again

When the old man died

In watching its pendulum swing to and fro

Many hours had he spent as a boy

And in childhood and manhood the clock seemed to know

And share both his grief and his

And it struck twenty-four 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

It rang an alarm in the dead of the night

An alarm that for years had been dumb

And we knew that his spirit was pluming his flight

That his hour of departure had come

Still the clock kept the time， with a soft and muffled chime

As we silently stood by his side

But it stopped， short， never to go again

When the old man died

歌詞大意

我爺爺的鐘很大，架子上根本放不下，

所以它在地板上矗立了九十年。

它比爺爺高出一半，

可比一便士還輕。

它是在爺爺出生的那天早上買的，

一直是他的寶貝和驕傲。

但它不久就停了下來，再也不走了，

當老人溘然長逝。

九十年不曾停擺，

滴答，滴答。

他的生命倒數，

滴答，滴答。

但它不久就停了下來，再也不走了，

當老人溘然長逝。

兒時的他曾花大量時間，

看鐘擺來回晃動。

無論是童年還是成年，那鐘似乎都了解，

也分享了他的悲傷和喜悅。

當他打開門，那鐘敲響了二十四下，

因為他帶來了一位美麗如花的新娘。

但它不久就停了下來，再也不走了，

當老人溘然長逝。

爺爺去世的那天晚上，鐘敲響警報，

之前一直未曾響過。

我們知道他的靈魂將要飛翔，

他離去的時刻已經到來。

那鐘還是在計時，伴隨著輕柔而壓抑的悲鳴，

當我們默默地站在他身旁。

但它不久就停了下來，再也不走了，

當老人溘然長逝。