F# B F# C#
F# B F# C#


[Verse]

         F#             B            F#                C#
When you hear that I am dying and my song it should be sung.
     F#              B                 F#           D#m        G#m  C#
Just say I lived the way I pleased and spoke with a free man’s tongue.
   F#               B                 F#                 C#
So when they hit me to the stone, and closed my grass to cell.
        F#      F#/A#  B     Cdim          C#                    F#
I don’t want no crying on my grave, just a ring of that charming bell.


[Chorus]

            F#            B    F#            C#
And you can tone the bell easy; tone it all around, Lordy
F#            B              F#     C#   F#
Tone the bell easy I want to lay my body down.
            F#       B    F#            C#
I said tone the bell easy, tone it all around, Lordy
F#            B              F#     C#   F#
Tone the bell easy I want to lay my body down.


[Verse 2]

     F#           B                F#            C#
When I was just a cabin boy on the freighter Annalee
    F#               B             F#      D#m     G#m  C#
the first mate was a salty dog and this he said to me.
  F#             B                 F#                 C#
I take the women wine and song and life will serve me well
       F#      F#/A#   B     Cdim           C#              F#
‘cause brother it will be to late when they ring that final bell.


[Chorus 2]

            F#            B    F#            C#
And you can tone the bell easy; tone it all around, Lordy
F#            B              F#     C#   F#
Tone the bell easy I want to lay my body down.
       F#            B    F#            C#
I said tone the bell easy, tone it all around, Lordy
F#            B              F#     C#   F#
Tone the bell easy I want to lay my body down.


[Verse 3]

     F#               B              F#                 C#
From sea till sea and pole to pole I followed my roving mind.
  F#                  B               F#         D#m   G#m  C#
I spent the gold of a king or two and drunk some heavy wine
       F#              B            F#             C#
and in heaven it can’t offer me the joys I used to know.
       F#   F#/A#    B    Cdim      C#                F#
I hope they turn the box around and sending me down below.


[Chorus 3]

            F#            B    F#            C#
And you can tone the bell easy; tone it all around, Lordy
F#            B              F#     C#   F#
Tone the bell easy I want to lay my body down.
       F#            B    F#            C#
I said tone the bell easy, tone it all around, Lordy
F#            B              F#     C#   F#  D7
Tone the bell easy I want to lay my body down.


[Verse 4]

G                  C               G             D
Things that I have done for love I never could relate.
  G                   C                  G        Em    Am D
I past from a woman’s loving arms to the hands of cruel fate.
    G               C                G                D
But if a young girl passes by and my chest it doesn’t swell,
     G       G/B         C       C#dim     G         D      G   D#7
just roll me down to the burning gates and ring that devils bell.


[Chorus 4]

            G#            C#   G#            D#
And you can tone the bell easy; tone it all around, Lordy
G#            C#             G#     D#   G#
Tone the bell easy I want to lay my body down.
            A             D    A             E
Hear me now tone the bell easy, tone it all around, Lordy
A             D              A      E    A     F
Tone the bell easy I want to lay my body down.
             Bb            Eb  Bb             F
Come on now, tone the bell easy, tone it all around, Lordy
Bb            Eb             Bb     F    Bb   Eb
Tone the bell easy I want to lay my body down,
          Bb     F    Bb   Eb         Bb     F    Bb
I want to lay my body down, I want to lay my body down.