My Grandfather's Clock
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"Grandfather's Clock" (populer dikenal sebagai "My Grandfather's Clock" bahasa Indonesia: Jam Kakekku) adalah sebuah lagu yang ditulis pada tahun 1876 oleh Henry Clay Work, penulis "Marching Through Georgia". Lagu ini merupakan lagu standar band kuningan dan band tambang batu bara Inggris, dan juga populer dalam musik bluegrass. Oxford English Dictionary mengatakan bahwa lagu ini adalah asal mula istilah "grandfather clock" untuk jam berdiri.[1] Pada tahun 1905, rekaman paling awal yang diketahui dari lagu ini dibawakan oleh Harry Macdonough dan Haydn Quartet (yang saat itu dikenal sebagai "Edison Quartet").
Alur cerita

Lagu ini, yang diceritakan dari sudut pandang seorang cucu, berkisah tentang jam kakeknya.
Jam tersebut dibeli pada pagi hari kelahiran kakek dan berfungsi sempurna selama 90 tahun, hanya perlu diputar jarumnya di akhir setiap minggu.
Jam itu seolah mengetahui peristiwa baik dan buruk dalam kehidupan kakek; jam itu berbunyi 24 kali ketika kakek membawa istri barunya ke rumah, dan menjelang kematiannya jam itu berbunyi alarm, yang dikenali keluarga sebagai pertanda bahwa pria tua itu akan segera meninggal dan mereka berkumpul di samping tempat tidurnya. Setelah kakek meninggal, jam itu tiba-tiba berhenti, dan tidak pernah berfungsi lagi.
Sekuel
Work menerbitkan sekuel lagu tersebut dua tahun kemudian, dan sekali lagi cucunya berperan sebagai narator. Sang cucu meratapi nasib jam kakek yang sudah tidak berfungsi lagi—jam itu dijual ke pedagang barang bekas, yang menjual bagian-bagiannya sebagai besi tua dan kotaknya sebagai kayu bakar. Di rumah kakek, jam tersebut diganti dengan jam dinding, yang dibenci oleh sang cucu (menyebutnya sebagai "benda sombong dan angkuh di dinding").[2] Namun, sekuel tersebut tidak pernah mencapai popularitas seperti aslinya.[3]
Lagu ini telah diaransemen ulang dan diterjemahkan berkali-kali. Versi dalam bahasa lain mungkin berbeda; misalnya, dalam versi Ceko, yang dinyanyikan oleh band country Taxmeni, lagu ini berlanjut dengan bait tambahan yang gembira, menceritakan peristiwa selanjutnya dalam kehidupan cucunya: kelahiran putranya dan pembelian jam baru pada hari yang sama, untuk mempertahankan tradisi keluarga.[4]
Popularitas di Jepang
"My Grandfather's Clock" menjadi terkenal di Jepang pada tahun 1962 ketika program musik anak-anak NHK, Minna no uta, menyiarkan rekaman karya Tachikawa Sumito . Rekaman tersebut disertai dengan animasi yang dibuat oleh Taniuchi Rokurō . Lagu ini kemudian dimasukkan ke dalam lingkungan pendidikan di Jepang sejak saat itu. Versi kedua disiarkan di Minna no uta pada tahun 1972, yang menggunakan rekaman yang sama, tetapi dengan urutan animasi baru oleh Takeguchi Yoshiyuki.[5]
Lirik asli
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 stopp'd short — never to go again —
When the old man died.
- Ninety years without slumbering (tick, tick, tick, tick),
- His life seconds numbering, (tick, tick, tick, tick),
- It stopp'd 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 stopp'd short — never to go again —
When the old man died.
- Ninety years without slumbering (tick, tick, tick, tick),
- His life seconds numbering, (tick, tick, tick, tick),
- It stopp'd short — never to go again —
- When the old man died.
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 stopp'd short — never to go again —
When the old man died.
- Ninety years without slumbering (tick, tick, tick, tick),
- His life seconds numbering, (tick, tick, tick, tick),
- It stopp'd 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 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 stopp'd short — never to go again —
When the old man died.
- Ninety years without slumbering (tick, tick, tick, tick),
- His life seconds numbering, (tick, tick, tick, tick),
- It stopp'd short — never to go again —
- When the old man died.[6][7]
Referensi
- ^ "Oxford English Dictionary" (available online to subscribers, also in print). Diakses tanggal 2009-04-19.
Grandfather's clock [suggested by a song which was popular about 1880], a furniture-dealer's name for the kind of weight-and-pendulum eight-day clock in a tall case, formerly in common use; also grandfather clock (now the usual name): [1876 H. C. WORK Grandfather's Clock, My grandfather's clock was too large for the shelf, So it stood ninety years on the floor.]
- ^ Henry C. Work (1878). "Sequel To Grandfather's clock". New York: C. M. Cady.
- ^ "Sequel To MY GRANDFATHER'S CLOCK - 1878 - Tom Roush". 2015-01-21. Diarsipkan dari versi aslinya tanggal 2021-12-21. Diakses tanggal 2019-11-07.
- ^ Taxmeni (1977). "Dědečkovy hodiny". Diarsipkan dari versi aslinya tanggal 2021-12-21 – via YouTube.Kover Bahasa Ceko dari My Grandfather's Clock
- ^ Tomizawa, Mizuo; Satō, Keiji. "みんなのうた《大きな古時計》(1962年)映像再現の試みについて" [On the Attempt to Revive the 1962 Footage of "My Grandfather's Clock" from Minna no uta] (PDF). Kyushu University Institutional Repository (dalam bahasa Jepang). hlm. 23–24. Diarsipkan (PDF) dari versi aslinya tanggal April 5, 2024. Diakses tanggal April 5, 2024.
- ^ Henry C. Work (1876). "Grandfather's clock". New York: C. M. Cady.
original publication uses "tick, tick, tick, tick", "tock" was added later
- ^ "History of the Grandfather Clock". The Clock Depot. Diarsipkan dari asli tanggal 16 March 2015. Diakses tanggal 29 June 2012.
Pranala luar
- My Grandfather's Clock: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
- Original Score
- Rekaman di tahun 1905 dari Internet Archive
- Sejarah Jamnya
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