Ring Out, O Bells, Your Peals Today

Ring out

O bells

your peals to­day

O ring

and do not cease;

For in a man­ger

far away

Is born the Prince of Peace.

Ring on

ye bells

O sweet­ly ring

While we with hap­py voic­es sing!

Ring on

ring on

ring on

ye bells

O sweet­ly ring

sweet­ly ring!

The shep­herds

far on Beth­l’hem’s plain

Who guard their flocks by night

See in the heav’n a shin­ing star

With won­drous glo­ry bright.

This was the star that hailed the birth

Of Je­sus Christ the Lord;

The Son and type of right­eous­ness

Whom an­gels fair ad­ored.

Now let us join

with one ac­cord

And joy­ful be our praise;

Ring out

O bells

and sweet­ly chime

Your mer­ry Christ­mas lays!