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Pretty Songs

ALL NIGHT, ALL DAY

(Chorus:) All night, All day,
Angels watchin' over me, my Lord.
All night, All day,
Angels watchin' over me.

Now I lay me down to sleep,
Angels watchin' over me, my Lord,
Pray the Lord my soul to keep,
Angels watchin' over me. (chorus)

If I die before I wake,
Angels watchin' over me, my Lord
Pray the Lord my soul to take,
Angels watchin' over me. (Chorus)

EDELWEISS

Edelweiss, Edelweiss,
Every morning you greet me,
Small and white, Clean and bright,
You look happy to meet me.

Blossom of snow,
May you bloom and grow,
Bloom and grow forever.
Edelweiss, Edelweiss,
Bless my homeland forever.

I Love The Mountains
(Can be sung in rounds)

I love the mountains,
I love the rolling hills,
I love the flowers,
I love the daffodils,
I love the fireside,
When all the lights are low.
Boom de ah da, Boom de ah da,
Boom de ah da,Boom de ay.
Boom de ah da, Boom de ah da,
Boom de ah da, Boom de

MY GRANDFATHER'S CLOCK
Henry Clay Work, 1876
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.

Chorus:
But it stopped, short, never to go again,
When the old man died.
Ninety years without slumbering,
tick, tock, tick, tock,
His life seconds numbering,
tick, tock, tick, tock,
It stopped, short, never to go again,
When the old man died.

2. 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.

Chorus:

3. 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 it's hands never hung by its side.

Chorus:

4. 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 its side.

Chorus:

TAPS

Day is done, Gone the sun,
From the lakes, From the hills, From the sky,
All is well, Safely rest, God is nigh.

Thanks and praise, For our days,
Neath the sun, Neath the stars, Neath the sky,
As we go. This we know, God is nigh.