Ring Them Bells Chords

Written by: Bob Dylan
From: "Oh Mercy" (1989)
As performed by: Heart (ft. Layne Staley), from “Desire Walks On” (1993)
 
No Capo
 
F/A* - (x-0-3-2-1-1)
F/G* - (3-x-3-2-1-1)
D9/F#* - (2-x-0-2-1-0)
C/E* - (0(3)2-0-1-0)
Dm7* - (x-x-0-2-1-1)
Abaug* - (4-x-2-1-1-x)
C/G* - (3-x-2-0-1-0)
Fmaj7* - ((t)1-3-3-2-1-0)
 
 
 
[Intro]
| Am| C | Am | C |
 
[Verse 1]
C
Ring them bells, ye heathen
         F/A*             C
From the city that dreams
C
Ring them bells from the sanctuaries
           F/G*
’Cross the valleys and streams
            F                C
For they’re deep and they’re wide
        C                  F
And the world’s on its side
    C
And time is running backwards
    F/G       C
And so is the bride
 
[Interlude]
           Am               C
Ring them bells, Ring them bells
           Am               C
Ring them bells, Ring them bells
 
[Verse 2]
C
Ring them bells St. Peter
          F/A*             C
Where the four winds blow
C
You gotta ring them bells with an iron hand
       F/G
So the people will know
        F         C
That the rush hour is now
       C                  F
On the wheel and the plow
        C
And the sun is going down
         F/G*        C
on the sacred cow
 
[Interlude]
           Am               C
Ring them bells, Ring them bells
           Am               C
Ring them bells, Ring them bells
 
[Verse 3]
C
Ring them bells Sweet Martha
        F/G*             C
For the poor man’s son
C
You gotta ring them bells so the world will know
     G
That God is one
       F            C
For the shepherd is asleep
          C       F
Where the willows weep
        C
And the mountains are filled
     F/G*               C
With little lost sheep
 
[Middle 8]
          Am                          C
Ring them bells for the blind and the deaf
          Am                          C
Ring them bells for all of us who are left
          Am                   Abaug*
Ring them bells for the chosen few
                   C/G                 D9/F#*
Who will judge the many when the game is through
          Fmaj7*                      C/E*
Ring them bells, for the time that flies
                   Dm7*
For the child that cries
               F/G*
When innocence dies
 
[Verse 4]
C
Ring them bells St. Catherine
         F/G*              C
From the top of the room
C
Now ring them from the fortress
        F/G*
From the lilies that bloom
       F         C
For the lines they are long
        C           F
And the fighting is strong
            C
And they’re breaking down the distance
        F/G*              C
Between right and wrong
           Am               C
Ring them bells, Ring them bells
           Am               C
Ring them bells, Ring them bells
 
[Outro]
| G | F | G | F |
| C | % | F/G C
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