For a Fife version of "Grandfather's Clock" check tohe following link to the Company of Fifers and Drummers collection online:
http://www.fife-n-drum.org/towpath/music/gif/company1/00000017.html
It is part of the 3rd Maine's repitoire for informal concerts or jam sessions when "authenticity" to the Civil War period is not a major issue. The Drummers strike their sticks against those of their comrades on each side for the "tick-tock" rythm, and it is quite effective and a real audience-pleaser! On guitar, this tune begs for harmonic "chiming" thrown in here & there to simulate the clock's bell, and tapping on the deck for the "tick-tock" effect. Kids seem particularly tickled with that sort of thing. Our Daughter as a baby had a wind-up wooden toy music box clock that played this tune and "ticked" in time to it as the hands went 'round and 'round the smiling face. Her Mother and I frequently picked it up and gave it a crank as we too loved listening to it. I think Shearon still has the old toy (25 now), and she and Wife (Sue) frequently request the old "Clock" when I pick up my guitar to this day. From what I gather, it was a tremendous "hit" from when it was introduced in the 1870s well into the 20th Century. A better example of later Victorian popular music could hardly be offered.