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Thread #30625   Message #2524997
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
26-Dec-08 - 01:04 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: Ring Dem Bells / Ring Them Bells
Subject: Lyr Add: MARY AND MARTHA
Many variants on "Mary and Martha" ("Ring Those Charming Bells").
This one is similar to "Ring Them Charming Bells," posted above, but it is easier to post the whole rather than point out variant verses.

Lyr. Add: MARY AND MARTHA

Mary and a Martha's just gone 'long,
Mary and a Martha's just gone 'long,
Mary and a Martha's just gone 'long,
To ring those charming bells.

Chorus:
Crying:
Free grace and dying love,
Free grace and dying love,
Free grace and dying love,
To ring those charming bells.
Oh! way over Jordan, Lord,
Way over Jordan, Lord,
Way over Jordan, Lord,
To ring those charming bells.

2
The preacher and the elder's just gone 'long, (3x)
To ring those charming bells.
3
My father and my mother's just gone 'long, (3x
To ring those charming bells.
4
The Methodist and the Baptist's just gone 'long, (3x)
To ring those charming bells.

Gilbert Clifford Noble, 1911, "The Most Popular Plantation Songs," pp. 28-29 with musical score. Hinds, Noble & Eldridge, NY.