The Bells of Notre Dame
From: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Music: Alan Menken
Lyrics: stephen Schwartz
Performed by: Paul Kandel [Clopin], David Ogden Stiers [Archdeacon], Tony Jay [Frollo], Chorus
[Clopin]
Morning in Paris, the city awakes
To the bells of Notre Dame
The fisherman fishes, and bakerman bakes
To the bells of Notre Dame
To the big bells as loud as the thunder
To the little bells soft as a psalm
And some say the soul of the city's
The toll of the bells
The bells of Notre Dame

Dark was the night when our tale was begun
On the docks near Notre Dame
Four frightened gypsies slid silently under
The docks near Notre Dame
But a trap had been laid for the gypsies
And they gazed up in fear and alarm
At a figure whose cluttches
Were iron as much as the bells
The bells of Notre Dame

[Chorus]
Kyrie Eleison

[Clopin]
Judge Claude Frollo longed
to purge the world
Of vice and sin

[Chorus]
Kyrie Eleison

[Clopin]
And he saw corruption
ev'rywhere
Except within

[Chorus]
Dies irae, dies illa
Solvet saeclum in favilla
Teste David cum sibylla
Quantus tremor est futurus
Quando Judex est venturus

[Archdeacon]
See there the innocent blood you have spilt
On the steps of Notre Dame
Now you would add this child's blood to your guilt
On the steps of Notre Dame
You can lie to your self and your minions
You can claim that haven't a qualm
But you never can run from
Nor hide what you've done from the eyes
The very eyes of Notre Dame

[Chorus]
Kyrie Eleison

[Clopin]
And for one time in his life
Of power and control

[Chorus]
Kyrie Eleison

[Clopin]
Frollo felt a twinge of fear
For his immortal soul

[Frollo]
Just so he's kept locked away
Where no one else can see
Even this foul creature may
Yet prove one day to be
Of use to me

[Clopin]
Now here is a riddle to guess if you can
Sing the bells of Notre Dame
Who is the monster and who is the man?

[Clopin and Chorus]
Sing the bells, bells, bells, bells
Bells, bells, bells, bells
Bells of Notre Dame


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