Let’s Ring the Bells for Jesus Christ by Vic Zarley

This song was written during a particularly fruitful time of songwriting when Linda and I drove up to Montana to spend time with her mom, Doris, who was living up there in the 80s. This was a true story of a town besieged by Napoleon and the strange but effective way the townspeople handled it. It was mentioned as one of the short pieces in a paperback I was reading called "Strange but True." Jesus works this way today. He overcomes in ways that we can't possibly imagine. Turn to Him, pray to Him, allow Him His amazing scope and ability. Do not limit Him but have total faith in what He can do for you!

    D                               F#
1. It happened in a         mountain town
2. The council met to     talk about
3. That Easter morn the sky was filled

   G                                    D
Two hundred         years ago
The town’s impending doom
With bells that rang and rang

                             F#
Napolean had       gathered troops
Everyone was      nervous in that
That Easter morn the preacher led

      E                        A
So ominous          below
Tiny council         room
The people as they sang

           D                 
                                   G 
Chorus:	Let’s ring the bells for Jesus Christ
                                   C                            G
		Let’s ring them loud and clear
                  	Let’s ring the bells courageously
                                                        D
		Let’s ring away all fear

                                   G
		Let’s ring the bells for Jesus Christ
                                  C                   G
 		This lovely Easter morn
		Let’s ring the bells with all our might
		       C            G       D
		So we might be reborn

     F#          
This town was needed for his troops
Surrender to           Napolean
And then that army     turned and fled

       G                         D
And it was quite a     prize
Or fight and hide the young
Because the bells had rung

                                   F#                                       
On   Easter morn he’d take this town 
A      preacher stood and said, “Let’s do
They thought an army larger

         E                     A      D  
   Before they         rea -  lized (next verse)
What we have          never done!” (chorus)
Than their own had finally come (chorus twice)