I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day Lyrics - The Civil Wars

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day 

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day 

Their old familiar carols play, 

And wild and sweet the words repeat 

Of peace on earth, good will to men 

I thought how, as the day had come, 

The belfries of all Christendom 

Had rolled along the unbroken song 

Of peace on earth, good will to men 

And in despair I bowed my head: 

"There is no peace on earth," I said, 

"For hate is strong and mocks the song 

Of peace on earth, good will to men" 

Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: 

"God is not dead, nor doth he sleep, 

The wrong shall fail, the right prevail, 

With peace on earth, good will to men"