Sarah Jarosz’s acoustic performance of “Ring Them Bells” for Vanguard and Sugar Hill Record’s The Americana Sessions recorded and taped at Minutia Studios in Nashville, TN.

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Pictured are a few the 11 bells created by Veterans for Peace, Chapter 27. These bells are rung around the Twin Cities regularly at Peace and Justice Events such as Armistice Day on November 11th, Hiroshima Day, at the Lake Street/Marshall Avenue Peace Bridge, and many more peace and justice occasions.

These bells were created in the last few years, but VFP Chapter 27 has a long tradition of bell ringing in the Twin Cities for peace and justice events.

Ring Them Bells

Ring them bells ye 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 on its side
And time is running backwards
And so is the bride.

Ring them bells Saint Peter where the four winds blow
Ring them bells with an ironhand
So the people will know
Oh it’s rush hour now
On the wheel and the plow
And the sun is going down upon the sacred cow.

Ring them bells Sweet Martha for the poor man’s son
Ring them bells so the world will know that God is one
Oh the shepherd is asleep
Where the willows weep
And the mountains are filled with 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 will 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 from the fortress for the lilies that bloom
Oh the lines are long and the fighting is strong
And they’re breaking down the distance between right and wrong.

Composer of “Ring Them Bells”, Bob Dylan, from the album Oh Mercy.

source: http://www.lyricsondemand.com/j/joanbaezlyrics/ringthembellslyrics.html