Ring them bells yea heathen from the city that dreams

Ring them bells from the sanctuaries cross the valleys and streams

For they're deep and they're wide

And the world's on it's side

And time is running backwards and so is the bride

Ring them bells

Ring them bells

Ring them bells

Ring them bells!



Ring them bells Saint Peter where the four winds blow

Ring them bells with an iron hand so the people will know

That the rush hour is now on the wheel and the plow and the sun is going down upon the sacred cow

Ring them bells

Ring them bells

Ring them bells

Ring them bells



Ring them bells Saint Martha for the poor man's son

Ring them bells so the world will know that God is one

For the shepherd is asleep where the willows weep

And the mountains are filled with little lost sheep

Ring them bells for the blind and the deaf

Ring them bells for all of us who are left

Ring them bells for the chosen few who would judge the many when the game is through

Ring them bells for the time that flies, for the child that cries when innocence dies

Ring them bells Saint Catherine from the top of the room

Ring them bells from the fortress from the lilies that bloom

For the lines they are long and the fighting is strong

And they're breaking down the distance between right and wrong



Ring them bells

Ring them bells

Ring them bells

Ring them bells