From “Ziegfeld Follies of 1920”
words and music by Irving Berlin
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Very many years ago
Mister Edgar Allan Poe
Wrote a little poem I know
Called “Bells”
When I read those clever rhymes
Of the many different chimes
I could almost hear them ringing
Ding dong dinging
Chorus
Phone bells, sleigh bells
And very merry Christmas day bells
The brazen fire bells that ring with fear
And happy New Year bells
That ring out once a year
Cow bells, door bells
For all I know there may be more bells
But the poet tells that wedding bells
Have the sweetest little ding dong of all
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: