Lyrics to
Ring Your Bell

This version of Ring Your Bell was released by The Band in 1975.

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Ring your bell
Change your number
Run like hell
You can’t hide from thunder

Oh, no
Ring your bell
Get in the wind
You and me gonna make some medicine

Run that rebel across the tracks
With the Mounties on his trail
He was taught
Don’t get caught at the mercy of the man
Land in jail
Meet me, madam, on the high road
We gonna blow the man down
I’ve been totin’ a heavy load
And I’m rarin’ to clown
Mess around

Ring your bell
Shake your tower
Pump your well
Turn on your power
I’m gonna ring your bell
Glide on in
You and me gonna make some medicine

Smoky bars and souped-up cars
Where we drowned all sorrow
Renegade woman
Love me like there’s no tomorrow
Left to borrow
Bloodhounds comb the back streets
With the ramrod close behind
Ask for justice, you gonna find
My ass across
That border line

Ring your bell
Sound the chime
Open up your shell
Get on the line
Come on, ring your bell
Gimme some skin
You and me gonna make some medicine

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The Band has released many songs over the years besides Ring Your Bell. The Band released songs from 1968 to 2002 spanning across albums like Music From Big Pink, The Band, Stage Fright, Cahoots, Moondog Matinee, Northern Lights - Southern Cross, Islands, Jericho, High On The Hog, Jubilation, and The Last Waltz. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by The Band.

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About Lyrics and Ring Your Bell by The Band

The lyrics for Ring Your Bell are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1975 song by The Band. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Ring Your Bell have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Ring Your Bell - The Band and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Ring Your Bell by The Band in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Ring Your Bell" means the words set to the music of Ring Your Bell, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Band. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Ring Your Bell and the lyrics to Ring Your Bell are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to Ring Your Bell, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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