Tone The Bell Easy

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[Verse]

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When you hear that I am dying and 
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my song it should be sung.
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Just say I lived the way I pleased
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 and spoke with a free man’s tongue.
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So when they hit me to the stone, 
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and closed my grass to cell.
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I don’t want no crying on my 
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grave, just a ring of that 
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charming bell.


[Chorus]

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And you can tone the bell easy; 
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tone it all around, Lordy
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Tone the bell easy I want to lay
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 my body down.
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I said tone the bell easy, tone 
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it all around, Lordy
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Tone the bell easy I want to lay
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 my body down.


[Verse 2]

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When I was just a cabin boy on the 
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freighter Annalee
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the first mate was a salty dog and 
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this he said to me.
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I take the women wine and song and 
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life will serve me well
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‘cause brother it will be to 
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late when they ring that final bell.


[Chorus 2]

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And you can tone the bell easy; 
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tone it all around, Lordy
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Tone the bell easy I want to lay
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 my body down.
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I said tone the bell easy, tone 
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it all around, Lordy
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Tone the bell easy I want to lay
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 my body down.


[Verse 3]

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From sea till sea and pole to pole
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 I followed my roving mind.
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I spent the gold of a king or two 
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and drunk some heavy wine
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and in heaven it can’t offer me 
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the joys I used to know.
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I hope they turn the box around 
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and sending me down below.


[Chorus 3]

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And you can tone the bell easy; 
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tone it all around, Lordy
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Tone the bell easy I want to lay
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 my body down.
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I said tone the bell easy, tone 
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it all around, Lordy
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Tone the bell easy I want to lay
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 my body down.


[Verse 4]

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Things that I have done for love I
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 never could relate.
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I past from a woman’s loving arms 
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to the hands of cruel fate.
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But if a young girl passes by and 
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my chest it doesn’t swell,
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just roll me down to the burning 
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gates and ring that devils bell.


[Chorus 4]

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And you can tone the bell easy; 
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tone it all around, Lordy
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Tone the bell easy I want to lay
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 my body down.
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Hear me now tone the bell easy, 
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tone it all around, Lordy
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Tone the bell easy I want to lay
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 my body down.
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Come on now, tone the bell easy, 
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tone it all around, Lordy
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Tone the bell easy I want to lay
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 my body down,
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I want to lay my body down, I 
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want to lay my body down.