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[The old clock stands on the mantle-shelf]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. H. Gabriel Used With Text: The Clock
[The old clock stands on the mantle-shelf]
The Clock
Author: Edith S. Tillotson Hymnal: Sunday School Voices, No.2 #189 (1913) First Line: The old clock stands on the mantle-shelf Refrain First Line: Tick, tock, tick, tock Lyrics: 1 The old clock stands on the mantle-shelf,
And sings the whole day long;
The moments fly and the time goes by
To the measure of its song.
Tick, tock, tick, tock,
Sings the old clock,
Tick, tock, tick, tock;
Be true, be kind,
Joy you will find,
Tick, tock, tick.
2 The old clock says to the little folks,
“Remember what I tell!
Then time’s swift wing will be sure to bring
A happy life to you!”
Tick, tock, tick, tock,
Sings the old clock,
Tick, tock, tick, tock;
Give hope, give cheer,
All day, all year,
Tick, tock, tick.
3 The old clock says to us, one and all,
“Be good, and kind, and true,
Then time’s swift wing will be sure to bring
A happy life to you!”
Tick, tock, tick, tock,
Sings the old clock,
Tick, tock, tick, tock;
Be brave, be strong,
All your life long,
Tick, tock, tick.
Languages: English Tune Title: [The old clock stands on the mantle-shelf]
The Clock
Edith Sanford Tillotson
1876 - 1968 Author of "The Clock" Edith Sanford Tillotson was born and lived her entire life in Corona, New York. She wrote hymns for children as well as poems and librettos.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
Edith Sanford Tillotson
Chas. H. Gabriel
1856 - 1932 Composer of "[The old clock stands on the mantle-shelf]" in Sunday School Voices, No.2 Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree
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For the first seventeen years of his life Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (b. Wilton, IA, 1856; d. Los Angeles, CA, 1932) lived on an Iowa farm, where friends and neighbors often gathered to sing. Gabriel accompanied them on the family reed organ he had taught himself to play. At the age of sixteen he began teaching singing in schools (following in his father's footsteps) and soon was acclaimed as a fine teacher and composer. He moved to California in 1887 and served as Sunday school music director at the Grace Methodist Church in San Francisco. After moving to Chicago in 1892, Gabriel edited numerous collections of anthems, cantatas, and a large number of songbooks for the Homer Rodeheaver, Hope, and E. O. Excell publishing companies. He composed hundreds of tunes and texts, at times using pseudonyms such as Charlotte G. Homer. The total number of his compositions is estimated at about seven thousand. Gabriel's gospel songs became widely circulated through the Billy Sunday-Homer Rodeheaver urban crusades.
Bert Polman
Chas. H. Gabriel
