Tone The Bell Easy

When you hear that I am dying

And my song it should be sung

Just say I lived the way I pleased

And spoke with a free man's tongue

So when they fit me to the stone

And close my grass's cell

I don't want no crying on my grave

A just ring that charming bell

And you can tone the bell easy

Tone it all around

Tone the bell easy

When they lay my body down

When I was just a cabin boy

On the freighter "Annalee"

The first mate was a salty dog

And this he said to me

I'll take the women, wine and song

And life will serve me well

`Cause brother it will be too late

When they're ringing that final bell

And you can tone the bell easy

Tone it all around

Tone the bell easy

When they lay my body down

From sea to sea and pole to pole

I followed my roving mind

I spent the gold of a king or two

And drunk some heavy wine

And if heaven it can't offer me

The joys I used to know

Well I hope they turn the box around

And a sending me down below

And you can tone the bell easy

Tone it all around

Tone the bell easy

When they lay my body down

The things that I have done for love

I never could relate

I passed from a woman's loving arms

To the hands of cruel fate

But if a young girl passes by

And my chest it doesn't swell

Just roll me down to the burning gates

And ring that devil's bell

And you can tone the bell easy

Tone it all around

Tone the bell easy

When they lay my body down