Chords for Gordon Lightfoot - Ring Them Bells

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_ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Ring then [B] bells, ye heathen, from the city that drains _
_ _ Ring [Em] then bells from the sanctuaries, [B] cross the valleys and _ _ straits
[A] For by day, by night, by [E] _
day, _ _ by night, [A] _ _
_ [E] time is running [B] backwards and so [F#] is the [E]
bride
_ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Ring then [B] bells, Saint Peter, where the four wings flow
_ _ _ Ring then bells with an iron hand so the people know _
_ For [A] it's rush hour now, [E] _
_ _ on the well of the [A] plow
_ [B] And [E] the sun is a-going down upon [B] the sacred _ [E] cow
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_ _ _ Ring then bells, sweet mother for the [F#] poor man's son
[E] _
_ _ _ Ring then bells [A] so the world will know [B] that her God is one
_ [A] For the shepherd is [E] asleep, _ _ where the willows [A] wave
_ The [E] _ mountains are filled [F#] with lost [E] sheep
_ Ring [C#m] then bells, _ _ for [E] the blind and the deaf _ _
_ Ring [C#m] then bells, _ _ for our hearts [E] are wild and deaf _ _
_ Ring [C#m] then bells, _ _ for the [E] chosen few _ _
Who [A] judge the living _ _ _ and the [F#] deeming true _ _
_ Ring [A] then bells, _ _ _ for the [E] time that flies _ _
For the [F#m] child who cries _ when her innocence [B] dies _ _
_ _ _ [E] Ring then bells, Saint Catherine, from [F#m] the top of the roof
[E] _
_ _ _ Ring [A] then bells, for the four trips, for the lilies that [B] bloom _
_ For [A] the land's our [E]
home _ and the fighting is [A]
strong
_ [E] And the breaking down of distance _ [F#m] between right and [E] wrong
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