The Bells chords by 
Phil Ochs 
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Key: Db major•
Verse 1
Db
Hear the sledges with the bells
Silver bells
What a world of merriment
Cb
Db
Their melody foretells
Cb
Ab
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle
Cb
Ab
In the icy air of night
Cb
Ab
All the heavens seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight
Db
Keeping time, time, time
Ab
With a sort of Runic rhyme
Db
From the tin tinnabulation
That so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells,
Gb
Db
bells, bells, bells, bells
Gb
From the jingling and the tink
Db
ling of the bells
Verse 2
Db
Hear the mellow wedding bells
Golden bells
What a world of happiness
Their harmony foretells
Cb
Ab
Through the balmy air of night
Cb
How they ring out their delight
Ab
Cb
Ab
Through the dances and the yells
Cb
Ab
And the rapture that im pels
Db
How it swells
How it dwells
Bbm
Db
On the fu ture
Ab
How it tell s
Db
From the swinging and the ringing
of the molten golden bells
Of the bells, bells, bells,
Gb
Db
bells, bells, bells, bells
Gb
Of the rhym ing and
Db
the chiming of the bells
Verse 3
Db
Hear the loud alarum bells
Brazen bells
What a tale of terror now
Their turbulency tells
Cb
Ab
Much too horri fied to speak
Cb
Ab
Oh, they can only shriek
For all the ears to know
Cb
Ab
How the danger ebbs and flows
Db
Leaping higher, higher, higher
Ab
With a desperate de sire
Db
In a clamorous appealing to
Cb
Db
the mer cy of the fire
With the bells, bells, bells,
bells, bells, bells, bells
Gb
With the clamor an d
Db
the clanging of the bells
Verse 4
Db
Hear the tolling of the bells
Iron bells
What a world of solemn thought
their monody compels
Ab
For all the sound that floats
Cb
Ab
From the rust within our throat s
Cb
Ab
And the people sit and groan
Cb
Ab
In their muffled mono tone
Db
Bbm
And the tolling, tolling, tolling
Db
Ab
Feels a glory in the rolling
Db
From the throbbing and the sobbing
Cb
Db
Of the mel ancholy bells
Gb
Db
Oh, the bells, bells, bells,
Gb
Db
bells, bells, bells, bells
Gb
Ab
Oh, the moaning and the groan
Db
ing of the bells.
Verse 5
Db
Hear the sledges with the bells
Silver bells
What a world of merriment
Cb
Db
Their melody foretells
Cb
Db
Ab
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle
In the icy air of night
All the heavens seem to twinkle
Abm
Ab
With a crys tal line delight
Db
Keeping time, time, time
Ab
With a sort of Runic rhyme
Db
From the tin tinnabulation
That so musically wells
Db
From the bells, bells, bells,
Db
bells, bells, bells, bells
From the jingling and
Db
the tinkling of the bell s
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