Ring Out, Wild Bells! A Song For The New Year!

[Stackabones]

Ring Out, Wild Bells

 

I wrote and recorded this earlier this morning. The lyrics are by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and the music is by me.

 

Happy New Year, HCAG!

 

Ring Out, Wild Bells

 

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,

The flying cloud, the frosty light:

The year is dying in the night;

Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

 

 

 

Ring out, ring out, ring out, ring out

 

Ring out, wild bells!

 

 

 

Ring out the old, ring in the new,

Ring, happy bells, across the snow:

The year is going, let him go;

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

 

 

 

Ring out, ring out, ring out, ring out

 

Ring out, wild bells!

 

 

Ring out the want, the care, the sin,

The faithless coldness of the times;

Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes,

But ring the fuller minstrel in.

 

 

 

Ring out, ring out, ring out, ring out

 

Ring out, wild bells.

 

 

 

 

Chords

 

Verse

G D G

G D G

G D/F# Em D/F#

G D G

 

Chorus

G D/F# Em D/F#

C D G

[andy thompson]

Optomistic sentiments, thanks.

 

Nice touch putting chords in, thanks.

 

 

 

 

 

Janruary Man...trad...arr Bert Jansch or Christy Moore.

 

A little more melancholy.

 

 

Just a thought in the same vain.

[Stackabones]

Thanks for checking it out, Andy.

 

I'll have to look into January Man. I've always meant to listen to more Jansch.