The Bells
The Bells

The Bells easy guitar chords by Phil Ochs

N/A•
Guitar
Tuning

E A D G B E

Capo

Fret 1

Capo

Transpose

0

Capo

  • C

  • Bb

  • G

  • F

  • Am

  • Gm

    3

  • C

  • Bb

  • G

  • F

  • Am

  • Gm

    3
    • Intro 1


    Verse 1
    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 tin
    tinnabulation 

    That 
    so 
    musically 
    wells 

    From 
    the bells, 
    bells, 
    bells, 

    bells, 
    bells, 
    bells, 
    bells 

    From 
    the jingling 
    and 
    the tink

    ling 
    of 
    the bells 

    Verse 2

    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 
    im
    pels 

    How 
    it 
    swells 

    How 
    it dwells 

    On 
    the fu
    ture 

    How 
    it tell
    s 

    From 
    the swinging 
    and 
    the 
    ringing 

    of 
    the molten 
    golden 
    bells 

    Of 
    the bells, 
    bells, 
    bells, 

    bells, 
    bells, 
    bells, 
    bells 

    Of 
    the rhym
    ing 
    and 

    the chiming 
    of 
    the bells 

    Verse 3

    Hear 
    the 
    loud 
    alarum 
    bells 

    Brazen 
    bells 

    What 
    a tale 
    of 
    terror 
    now 

    Their 
    turbulency 
    tells 

    Much 
    too 
    horri
    fied 
    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 
    de
    sire 

    In 
    a clamorous 
    appealing 
    to 

    the mer
    cy 
    of 
    the 
    fire 

    With 
    the bells, 
    bells, 
    bells, 

    bells, 
    bells, 
    bells, 
    bells 

    With 
    the clamor 
    an
    d 

    the clanging 
    of 
    the bells 

    Verse 4

    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 
    throat
    s 

    And 
    the 
    people 
    sit 
    and 
    groan 

    In 
    their 
    muffled 
    mono
    tone 

    And 
    the tolling, 
    tolling, 
    tolling 

    Feels 
    a glory 
    in the 
    rolling 

    From 
    the throbbing 
    and 
    the sobbing 

    Of 
    the mel
    ancholy 
    bells 

    Oh, 
    the bells, 
    bells, 
    bells, 

    bells, 
    bells, 
    bells, 
    bells 

    Oh, 
    the moaning 
    and 
    the groan

    ing 
    of 
    the bells. 

    Verse 5

    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 crys
    tal
    line 
    delight 

    Keeping 
    time, 
    time, 
    time 

    With 
    a sort 
    of 
    Runic 
    rhyme 

    From 
    the tin
    tinnabulation 

    That 
    so 
    musically 
    wells 

    From 
    the 
    bells, 
    bells, 
    bells, 

    bells, 
    bells, 
    bells, 
    bells 

    From 
    the jingling 
    and 

    the tinkling 
    of 
    the bell
    s 

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