The Bells chords by Phil Ochs

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Intro 1

Verse 1
C 
Hear the sledges with the bells
Silver bells
What a world of merriment
Bb 
C 
Their melody foretells
Bb 
G 
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle
Bb 
G 
In the icy air of night
Bb 
G 
All the heavens seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight
C 
Keeping time, time, time
G 
With a sort of Runic rhyme
C 
From the tintinnabulation
That so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells,
F 
C 
bells, bells, bells, bells
F 
From the jingling and the tink
C 
ling of the bells

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Verse 2
C 
Hear the mellow wedding bells
Golden bells
What a world of happiness
Their harmony foretells
Bb 
G 
Through the balmy air of night
Bb 
How they ring out their delight
G 
Bb 
G 
Through the dances and the yells
Bb 
G 
And the rapture that impels
C 
How it swells
How it dwells
Am 
C 
On  the future
G 
How it tells
C 
From the swinging and the ringing
of the molten golden bells
Of the bells, bells, bells,
F 
C 
bells, bells, bells, bells
F 
Of the rhyming and
C 
the chiming of the bells

Verse 3
C 
Hear the loud alarum bells
Brazen bells
What a tale of terror now
Their turbulency tells
Bb 
G 
Much too horrified to speak
Bb 
G 
Oh, they can only shriek
For all the ears to know
Bb 
G 
How the danger ebbs and flows
C 
Leaping higher, higher, higher
G 
With a desperate desire
C 
In a clamorous appealing to
Bb 
C 
the mercy  of the fire
With the bells, bells, bells,
bells, bells, bells, bells
F 
With the clamor and
C 
the clanging of the bells

Verse 4
C 
Hear the tolling of the bells
Iron bells
What a world of solemn thought
their monody compels
G 
For all the sound that floats
Bb 
G 
From the rust within our throats
Bb 
G 
And the people sit and groan
Bb 
G 
In their muffled monotone
C 
Am 
And the tolling, tolling, tolling
C 
G 
Feels a glory in the rolling
C 
From the throbbing and the sobbing
Bb 
C 
Of the melancholy bells
F 
C 
Oh, the bells, bells, bells,
F 
C 
bells, bells, bells, bells
F 
G 
Oh, the moaning and the groan
C 
ing of the bells.

Verse 5
C 
Hear the sledges with the bells
Silver bells
What a world of merriment
Bb 
C 
Their melody foretells
Bb 
C 
G 
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle
In the icy air of night
All the heavens seem to twinkle
Gm 
G 
With a crystalline delight
C 
Keeping time, time, time
G 
With a sort of Runic rhyme
C 
From the tintinnabulation
That so musically wells
C 
From the bells, bells, bells,
C 
bells, bells, bells, bells
From the jingling and
C 
the tinkling of the bells