SONG: The Bells Of Notre Dame
ARTIST: Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz
From the musical, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Intro:
D5 D5 D5 A#/D
D5 D5 D5 D5
Dm Dm Dm Dm
Dm Dm Dm Dm
Dm C7/E F A#m/C#
Morning in Paris, the city awakes
F/C A7#5 A7 Dm
To the bells of Notre Dame
C7/E F A#m/C#
The fisherman fishes, the bakerman bakes
F/C C7 F F7
To the bells of Notre Dame
Gm Am Dm Dm
To the big bells as loud as the thunder
Gm C/E Asus A
To the little bells soft as a psalm
Dm C7/E F
And some say the soul of the city's
A#m/C# Dm
The toll of the bells
Dm Dm(maj7) Dm7
G7sus A#maj7
The bells of
C(no3rd) Am
Notre
Dm Dm C(no3rd)/D C(no3rd)/D
Dame
Dm C7/E F A#m/C#
F/C A7#5 A7 Dm Dm
Dm C7/E F A#m/C#
F/C C7 F F7
Gm Am Dm Dm/F
Gm C7/E Asus A
Dm C7/E F A#m/C#
Dm Dm Dm(maj7) Dm7
G7sus A#maj7 C(no3rd) Am(no3rd)
Dm Dm Dm Dm
Dm Dm/A Dm/B Dm/C#
Dm C7/E F A#m/C#
Dark was the night when our tale was begun
Dm A7#5 A7
On the docks near Notre
Dm Dm
Dame
Dm Dm
Dm C7/E F A#m/C#
Four frightened gypsies slid silently under
F/C C7 F(add2) F
The docks near Notre Dame
Fmaj7 F6
Gm Am Dm Dm
But a trap had been laid for the gypsies
Gm C7/E Asus A
And they gazed up in fear and alarm
Dm C7/E
At a figure whose clutches
F A#m Dm Dm
Were iron as much as the bells
Dm(maj7) Dm7
G7sys A#maj7
The bells of
C(no3rd) Am(no3rd)
Notre
Dm
Dame
Am(no3rd) Dm(no3rd)
Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)
A# Gm9 Am7
Judge Claude Frollo longed
A# Am
To purge the world
A#
Of vice and sin
Am(no3rd) Gm(no3rd)
Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)
A# Gm9 Am7
And he saw corruption
A# Am
Ev'rywhere
Dm(no3rd)
Except within
A#(no3rd)/D Am(no3rd)/D Gm(no3rd)/D Dm
C7/E F A#m/C# F/C
A D5 D5
D5 D5 F5 F5
Dies irae (Dies irae), dies illa (dies illa) (Day of wrath, that day)
Dm7 Em7 F Dm9 G A5
Solvet saeclum in favilla (Shall consume the world in ashes)
A5
Teste David cum sibylla (As prophesied by David and the sibyl)
A5 Am Fmaj7 G(no3rd) C5
Quantus tremor est futurus (What trembling is to be)
Cm G#
Quando
A# G# A# D#5
Judex est venturus (When the Judge is come)
Gm F/A Gm/A# Gm A D5
Quantus tremor est futurus (What trembling is to be)
Gm
Dies irae (Day of wrath)
F/A Gm/A#
Quando Judex est
Gm A D5
venturus (When the Judge is come)
Dies irae (Day of wrath)
D5 D#5 D#5
D#5 D#5
Solvet saeclum in favilla (Shall consume the world in ashes)
A5
Dies irae, dies illa (Day of wrath, that day)
D5 D5 D5 D5 Dm
Dm Dm Dm Dm
Dm/A Dm/B Dm/C#
Dm C7/E F A#m/C#
See there the innocent blood you have spilt
Dm A7#5 A7
On the steps of Notre
Dm Dm
Dame
Dm Dm
Dm C7/E F A#m/C#
Now you would add this child's blood to your guilt
F/C C7 F(add2) F
On the steps of Notre Dame
Gm Am Dm Dm
You can lie to yourself and your minions
Gm C/E Asus A
You can claim that you haven't a qualm
Dm C7/E
But you never can run from
F A#m Dm Dm Dm(maj7)
Nor hide what you've done from the eyes
Dm7 G7sus
The very eyes
A#maj7
of
C(no3rd) Am
Notre
Dm
Dame
Am(no3rd) Dm(no3rd)
Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)
A# Gm9 Am7 A#
And for one time in his life
Am A#
Of power and control
Am(no3rd) Gm(no3rd)
Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)
A# Gm9 Am7 A#
Frollo felt a twinge of fear
Am D5
For his immortal soul
D5 D5 D5 A#
Dm A# Dm A#
Dm
Just so he's kept locked away
D5 D5 D5 D5 A#
Where no one else can see
Dm
Even this foul creature may
E/D Asus
Yet prove one day to be
A Dm
Of use to me
Dm Dm Dm Dm
Dm Dm Dm
Dm C7/E F A#m/C#
Now here is a riddle to guess if you can
F/C A7#5 A7
Sing the bells of Notre
A# A#
Dame
Gm7 Am7 Dm A#maj7 A#maj7 A#maj7 A#maj7
Who is the monster and who is the man?
Gm7 Gm7 Am7 Am7
Sing the bells, bells, bells, bells
A#maj7 A#maj7 Am7 Am7
Bells, bells, bells, bells
G7sus A#maj7
Bells of
C(no3rd) Am
Notre
D5 D5 D5 D5
Dame
G(add9)/D D5 G(add9) D
