Three Bells - Edith Piaf

The Three Bells
(Original French title "LES TROIS CLOCHES")
(Music: Jean Villard Gilles / English Lyrics: Bert Reisfeld)

Three Bells Lyrics:

A bell for birth
A bell for marriage
A bell for death

There's a village hidden deep in the valley
Among the pine trees half forlorn
And there on a sunny morning
Little Jimmy Brown was born

So his parents brought him to the chapel
When he was only one day old
And the priest blessed the little fellow
Welcomed him into the fold
All the chapel bells were ringing in the little valley town
And the song that they were singing was for baby Jimmy Brown

There's a village hidden deep in the valley
Beneath the mountains high above
And there, twenty years thereafter
Jimmy was to meet his love

Many friends were gathered in the chapel
And many tears of joy were shed
In June on a Sunday morning
When Jimmy and his bride were wed

All the chapel bells were ringing, 'twas a great day in his life
'Cause the songs that they were singing was for Jimmy and his wife

From the village hidden deep in the valley
One rainy morning dark and grey
A soul winged its way to heaven
Jimmy Brown had passed away

Silent people gathered in the chapel
To say farewell to their old friend
Whose life had been like a flower
Budding, blooming till the end

Just a lonely bell was ringing in the little valley town
'Twas farewell that it was singing to our good old Jimmy Brown
And the little congregation prayed for guidance from above
Lead us not into temptation, may his soul find the salvation
Of thy great eternal love

Three Bells Singers

Edith Piaf & Les Compagnons De La Chanson - 1945


* Melody Maids - 1948 * The Andrews Sisters - 1951 * June Valli (with Hugo Winterhalter & His Orch.) - 1951 * Les Compagnons De La Chanson - 1952 * Gale Storm - 1956 * The Browns (billboard hot 100) 1959 * Dick Flood - 1959 * Rikki Henderson - 1959 * Shane Rimmer - 1959 * The Dawns - 1959 * The Toppers - 1959 * Tuula Siponius - 1959 (Finnish title "Kolme Kelloa") * Mac Wiseman - 1960 * The Tokens - 1963 * J.T. Adams & The Men Of Texas - 1963 * The Lettermen - 1964 * Brian Poole & The Tremeloes - 1964 * Jane Morgan - 1967 * Jim Ed Brown - 1969 * Anita Lindblom - 1973 (Swedish title "De Tre Klockorna") * Nana Mouskouri - 1974 * The King's Singers - 1974 * Tony Angel - 1975 * Mike Reid - 1975 * Zangeres Zonder Naam - 1977 (Dutch title "De Drie Klokken") * Roland De Ville Orch. - 1979 * Tony Rose - 1982 * Johnny Cash & The Carter Family - 1984 * Daniel O'Donnell - 1991

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