Ring Out, Wild Bells!
Music By: Crawford Gates, This setting by Michael Smurthwaite
Voices: Unison
Lyrics By: Alfred Tennyson
Description: An enthusiastic fervent hymn to uplift all who sing or hear it. Often sung as a New Years anthem.
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Lyrics:
1.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.
The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
2.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.
The year is going; let him go. Ring out the false; ring in the true.
3.Ring in the valiant men and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand. Ring out the darkness of the land;
Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Ring out the darkness of the land; Ring in the Christ that is to be.