Tom: G#m
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[Verse]
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When you hear that I am dying and my song it should be sung.
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Just say I lived the way I pleased and spoke with a free man’s tongue.
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So when they hit me to the stone, and closed my grass to cell.
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I don’t want no crying on my grave, just a ring of that charming bell.
[Chorus]
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And you can tone the bell easy; tone it all around, Lordy
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Tone the bell easy I want to lay my body down.
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I said tone the bell easy, tone it all around, Lordy
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Tone the bell easy I want to lay my body down.
[Verse 2]
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When I was just a cabin boy on the freighter Annalee
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the first mate was a salty dog and this he said to me.
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I take the women wine and song and life will serve me well
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‘cause brother it will be to late when they ring that final bell.
[Chorus 2]
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And you can tone the bell easy; tone it all around, Lordy
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Tone the bell easy I want to lay my body down.
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I said tone the bell easy, tone it all around, Lordy
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Tone the bell easy I want to lay my body down.
[Verse 3]
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From sea till sea and pole to pole I followed my roving mind.
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I spent the gold of a king or two and drunk some heavy wine
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and in heaven it can’t offer me the joys I used to know.
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I hope they turn the box around and sending me down below.
[Chorus 3]
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And you can tone the bell easy; tone it all around, Lordy
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Tone the bell easy I want to lay my body down.
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I said tone the bell easy, tone it all around, Lordy
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Tone the bell easy I want to lay my body down.
[Verse 4]
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Things that I have done for love I never could relate.
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I past from a woman’s loving arms to the hands of cruel fate.
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But if a young girl passes by and my chest it doesn’t swell,
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just roll me down to the burning gates and ring that devils bell.
[Chorus 4]
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And you can tone the bell easy; tone it all around, Lordy
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Tone the bell easy I want to lay my body down.
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Hear me now tone the bell easy, tone it all around, Lordy
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Tone the bell easy I want to lay my body down.
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Come on now, tone the bell easy, tone it all around, Lordy
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Tone the bell easy I want to lay my body down,
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I want to lay my body down, I want to lay my body down.
