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Thread #49675   Message #3582287
Posted By: Joe Offer
07-Dec-13 - 05:44 AM
Thread Name: Origins: The Bells of Hell Go Ting-A-Ling-A-Ling
Subject: ADD: The Bells of Hell go ting-a-ling-a-ling
Here's another version, just slightly different:

THE BELLS OF HELL GO TING-A-LING-A-LING
(For You But Not For Me)


The bells of Hell go ting-a-ling-a-ling
For you and not for me,
And the little devils how they sing-a-ling-a-ling
For you but not for me.

O, Death, where is thy sting-a-ling-a-ling?
O, grave, thy victory?
The bells of hell go ting-a-ling-a-ling,
For you but not for me.


from Legion Airs: Songs from 'Over There' and 'Over Here', compiled and edited by Frank E. Peat and Lee Orean Smith (New York: Leo Feist, Inc., 1932), page 141

You'll find almost the exact same lyrics on page 117 of Songs from the Front and Rear: Canadian Servicemen's Songs of the Second World War, by Anthony Hopkins (Hurtig Publishers, Edmonton, Alberta, 1979). The only difference is in the second line, For you but not for me