Below is a video of me playing Aura Lee/Lea on my piano
The Elvis Presley song “Love Me Tender” is a derivative adaptation of this song.
Lyrics (written by W. W. Fosdick ):
When the blackbird in the Spring,
‘On the willow tree, Sat and rocked,
I heard him sing,
Singing Aura Lea.
Aura Lea, Aura Lea,Maid with golden hair;
Sunshine came along with thee,
And swallows in the air.
Score:
Below Is a Video of me playing ‘My Grandfather’s Clock’ (H.C.Work).
Lyrics:
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 weighed 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.
[Refrain:
Ninety years without slumbering
(tick, tock, tick, tock),
His life’s seconds numbering,
(tick, tock, tick, tock),
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 while a boy;
And in childhood and manhood the clock seemed to know
And to share both his grief and his joy.
For 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.
(Refrain)
My grandfather said that of those he could hire,
Not a servant so faithful he found;
For it wasted no time, and had but one desire —
At the close of each week to be wound.
And it kept in its place — not a frown upon its face,
And its hands never hung by its side.
But it stopped short — never to go again —
When the old man died.
(Refrain)
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 for 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.
(Refrain)