Tone the Bell Easy Songtext
von Harry Belafonte

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

And then you can tone the bell easy, hmm
Tone it all around
Tone the bell easy when they lay my body down
I said you can tone the bell easy
Tone it all around louder
Tone the bell easy when they lay my body down

When I was just a cabin boy on the freighter, Anna Lee
The first mate was a salty dog, and this he said to me
"I'll take the women, wine and song, and life will serve me well
'Cause brother, it will be too late when they′re ringing that final bell"


And then you can tone the bell easy, hmm
Tone it all around louder
Tone the bell easy when they lay my body down
I said you can tone the bell easy
Tone it all around louder
Tone the bell easy when they lay my body down

From sea to sea, and pole to pole
I followed my roving mind
I spent the gold of a king or two, and drunk some heavy wine
And if Heaven, it can′t offer me the joys I used to know
Well, I hope they turn the box around, and a-sending me down below

And then you can tone the bell easy, louder
Tone it all around, hmm
Tone the bell easy when they lay my body down
I said you're gonna tone the bell easy
Tone it all around louder
Tone the bell easy when they lay my body down

The things that I have done for love, I never could relate
I passed from a woman′s a-loving arms to the hands of cruel fate
But if a young girl passes by and my chest, it doesn't swell
Just roll me down to the burning gates and a-ring that devil′s bell


And then you can tone the bell easy
Tone it all around louder
Tone the bell easy when they lay my body down
I said you can tone the bell easy
Tone it all around louder
Tone the bell easy when they lay my body down

I said you can tone the bell easy
Tone it all around louder
Tone the bell easy when they lay my body

Tone the bell louder, girl
I said a-tone, tone the bell a-louder, louder
Tone the bell a little more easily
Tone the bell a-louder...