Henry Clay Work, *1832, †1884, was an American composer and songwriter
Henry C. Work is known for the songs Kingdom Coming, Marching Through Georgia, The Ship That Never Returned and My Grandfather's Clock My Grandfather's Clock is a song written in 1876, it became a standard of British brass bands and colliery bands, and is also popular in bluegrass music. The Oxford English Dictionary says the song was the origin of the term "grandfather clock" for a longcase clock! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Grandfather%27s_Clock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Clay_Work Swiss music box: maker not known, no number
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