Inscriptions for a peal of eight bells - James Walker

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"Dedicated to Trevor Hold"

◈ Genre → Other ♬ Voicing → TTTTBBBB ¶ Language → English

Parts 8

Instruments Piano

Pages 15

CPDL # 33323

Editor John Kilpatrick

Posted 2014-11-09

License Personal

¶Lyrics / Text

Inscriptions for a peal of eight bells After a restoration. Thomas Tremble new-made me Eighteen hundred and fifty-three: Why he did I fail to see. I was well-toned by William Brine, Seventeen hundred and twenty-nine; Now, re-cast, I weakly whine. Fifteen hundred used my date to be, But since they melted me 'Tis only eighteen fifty-three. Henry Hopkins got me made, And I summon forth as bade; Not to much purpose, I'm afraid. I likewise: for I band and bid In commoner metal than I did, Some of me being stolen, and hid. I, too, since in a mould they flung me, Drained my silver, and re-hung me, So that in tin-like tones I tongue me. In nineteen hundred, so 'tis said, They cut my canon off my head And made me look scalped, scraped, and dead. I'm the peal's tenor still, but rue it! Once it took two to swing me through it: Now I'm re-hung, one dolt can do it.