Ring Out, Wild Bells
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Difficulty
Moderately Easy
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Category
Instrumental Only?
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Description
Two-part (equal or mixed) and organ. Perfect for New Year's, easy and singable with a great message for our time.
Text by Lord Tennyson.
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Lyrics
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 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 old shapes of foul disease,
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Ring in the valiant and the free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.