The Bells Lyrics - Live Again! - Phil Ochs

Hear the sledges with the bells 

Silver bells 

What a world of merriment 

Their melody foretells 

How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle 

In the icy air of night 

All the heavens seem to twinkle 

With a crystalline delight 

Keeping time, time, time 

With a sort of Runic rhyme 

From the tintinnabulation 

That so musically wells 

From the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells 

From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells 

Hear the mellow wedding bells 

Golden bells 

What a world of happiness 

Their harmony foretells 

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 tells 

From the swinging and the ringing 

Of the molten golden bells 

Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells 

Of the rhyming and the chiming of the bells 

Hear the loud alarm bells 

Brazen bells 

What a tale of terror now 

Their turbulency tells 

Much too horrified to speak 

Oh, they can only shriek 

For all the ears to know 

How the danger ebbs and flows 

Leaping higher, higher, higher 

With a desperate desire 

In a clamorous appealing 

To the mercy of the fire 

With the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells 

With the clamor and the clanging of the bells 

Hear the tolling of the bells 

Iron bells 

What a world of solemn thought their monody 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 

Feels a glory in the rolling 

From the throbbing and the sobbing 

Of the melancholy bells 

Oh, the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells 

Oh, the moaning and the groaning of the bells