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Thread #30065   Message #3089350
Posted By: Jim Dixon
05-Feb-11 - 03:15 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Bellringing
Subject: Lyr Add: THE RINGERS OF TORRINGTON TOWN
From English Minstrelsie: A National Monument of English Song, Volume 4
by Sabine Baring-Gould (Edinburgh: T. C. & E. C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works, 1896), page 101—which has musical notation for one voice and piano.


THE RINGERS OF TORRINGTON TOWN
Folk Song. (F. W. B.)

1. Good ringers be we that in Torrington dwell,
And what that we are I will speedily tell,
1 2 3 4 5 6 6 5 4 3 2 1 One.
The first is called Turner, the second call'd Swete,
The third is a Vulcan, the fourth Harry Neat.
1 2 3 4 5 6 6 5 4 3 2 1 One.

2. The fifth is a doctor a man of renown.
The Tenor the Tailor that clothes the whole town,
1 2 3 4 5 6 6 5 4 3 2 1 One.
The breezes proclaim in their fall and their swell,
No jar in the concord, no flaw in a bell.
1 2 3 4 5 6 6 5 4 3 2 1 One.

3. The winds that are blowing on mountain and lea,
Bear swiftly my message across the blue sea.
1 2 3 4 5 6 6 5 4 3 2 1 One.
Stand all men in order, give each man his due,
We can't all be Tenors, but each can pull true,
1 2 3 4 5 6 6 5 4 3 2 1 One.