Shawn Phillips - The Bells lyrics

Ochs-Poe Hear the sledges on the bells, silver bells What a world of merriment their melody fortells How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle in the icy ear of night And the heavens seem to twinkle with a crystalline delight Keeping time, time, time with a sort of early crying With a tintinabulation that so musically wells For the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells For the jingling and the tinkling of the bellsHear the mellow wedding bells, golden bells What a world of happiness their harmony fortells Through the balmy air of night, how they ring out their delight Through the dances and the yells, and the rapture that impels How it swells, how it dwells on the future, how it pells From the swingin' and the ringin' of the molden golden bells For the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells For the rhyming and the chiming of the bellsHear the loud alarm bells, brazen bells What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells Much to horrified to speak, oh they can only shreak For all the years to know, how the danger ebbs and flows Making higher, higher, higher in a desperate desire In a clamorous of feeling to the mercy of the fireHear the tolling of the bells, iron bells What a world of sollumn thought their melody compels For all the sound that floats, from the rust within our throats And the people sit and groan in their muffled monotone And the tolling, tolling, tolling builds a glory and the rolling From the throbbing and the sobbing of the melancholy bells For the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells For the bells, for the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells For the bells