Can anybody name the song & singers?

Subject: Can anybody name the song & singers?
From: Rasener
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 11:19 AM

I wonder if anybody can help with this. Its very sketchy.

From my memory I heard it by a harmony group or something like that.
I think they are Irish male singers.

Very sketchy on the lyrics, other than part of it is

Way down in the ?????
I rung the bell
Way down in the ?????
I rung the bell

The song is buzzing through my head and driving me crazy.

Can somebody help before thye take me away :-)

Subject: RE: Can anybody name the song & singers?
From: Jeri
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 11:33 AM

Leap of illogic:

My first thoughts were of the Corpus Christi Carol sung by the Voice Squad (Male, Irish and acapella)

"Down in yon forest there stands a hall,
The bells of Paradise I hear them ring;
It's covered all over with purple and pall
And I love my Lord Jesus above any thing."

Subject: RE: Can anybody name the song & singers?
From: Rasener
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 11:38 AM

It definately wasn't that Jeri :-)

Subject: RE: Can anybody name the song & singers?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 11:43 AM

Perhaps these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voice_Squad#Recordings

Subject: RE: Can anybody name the song & singers?
From: Rasener
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 11:48 AM

Mr Happy
No it wasn't them. They are very good though.

Subject: RE: Can anybody name the song & singers?
From: Jeri
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 12:03 PM

Well, it had a bell and Irish guys...

It didn't sound more like "And off in the distance, there rang a bell, and off in the distance, there rang a bell, and it rang for the saints and the sinners as well, and off in the..." did it?

The lyrics as you wrote them sound very shantyesque, and that almost rings a... thingie with me.

Subject: RE: Can anybody name the song & singers?
From: Rasener
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 12:08 PM

Bang on Jeri. Do you know who sang it?

Subject: RE: Can anybody name the song & singers?
From: Tim Leaning
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 12:11 PM

it was jeri I can still see it from here

Subject: RE: Can anybody name the song & singers?
From: Jeri
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 12:14 PM

David Francey (Canadian) wrote it. The title is 'Saints and Sinners'. I'll see if I can find more info on the group who sang it. Anybody want to guess it was Voice Squad?

Subject: RE: Can anybody name the song & singers?
From: Rasener
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 12:18 PM

I remember now

I heard it on the Cd from Claire Mann & Aaron Jones + some others. Called Saints and Sinners written by David Francey

Funnily enough a thread was done on it last year and I wouldn't have realised becuase I didn't know the title

thread.cfm?threadid=113993&messages=2

Thanks for getting me there Jeri 10/10. Its a lovely song.

Les

Subject: RE: Can anybody name the song & singers?
From: Rasener
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 12:29 PM

Cant find a youtube version by them.

But just for the sake of it, here is another by Clair and Aaron

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HawBuJABoQU&feature=related