WHEN THE ANGELUS IS RINGING
(Music: Bert Grant / Lyrics: Joe Young)

Peerless Quartet - 1914
Lyric Quartet - 1914
Irving Gillette - 1914
Robert Hadfield - 1914
Victor Light Opera Company - 1914
Debroy Somers & His Band - 1930
Vaughn Monroe & The Moon Maids - 1946
The Dolphins - 1955


Love time, love time
Can't you understand when it is love time
Birds sing, bells ring
Love just seems to ring with every chime
Ding dong, dong ding
Loves messages they bring

Two hearts, true hearts
All the world is full of loving sweethearts
I'll bring the ring
To the pealing of each silvery chime
Ding dong, dong ding
All nature seems in rhyme

When the angelus is ringing
In the belfry on the hill
And the whippoorwill is singing
In the night when all is still
I am waiting for the time
When I can come to you
And sing loves sweet song
While the silvery bells
Peal out their dong, ding dong

Down the road of love we'll wander
'Mid the violets perfume
To the little cottage yonder
Where we'll spend our honeymoon
And as we go through life from year to year
Cares and worries disappear
When the angelus is ringing, dear


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - September 2013)