Stepping away from your house Wrapped up in a Sunday shroud At Christchurch Christmas knell I'm pa**ing the Liberty Belle And I hear it with such clarity, tolling the ages The old Dublin people that keep it to themselves Let's ring out the Liberty Bell Woman after morning ma** Kneeling to her Sunday bra** She shines so very well This last of the Liberty belles Her weather-beaten, supple hands are yellowing pages From hymn-books of traders, the songs of buy and sell
Let's ring out the Liberty Bell Among the ghosts of market squares As notes die out in freezing air A world is waning in my view I want to save it all for you Out into the living night To sup a little black and white I'll have one for myself And one for the Liberty Bell And one more for the beaten road To kick up the traces Of the old Dublin people that kept it to themselves Let's ring out the Liberty Bell