CHORUS:
Ring, bells of Saint Janyl
Ring across the snow
Ring for the ones who waited
Ring for the ones who go
Every evening, every morning
When the shadows fall
I can hear you in the silence
Bells of Saint Janyl

There's an old woman climbing at the break of day
With a scarf as white as winter and her hair turned gray
She don't need a bell to tell her it's the hour of prayer
Fifty years she's kept the hour and she's always there
And she crosses at the doorway that the soldiers barred
And she sings the old words softly in the empty yard

CHORUS:
Ring, bells of Saint Janyl
Ring across the snow
Ring for the ones who waited
Ring for the ones who go
Every evening, every morning
When the shadows fall
I can hear you in the silence
Bells of Saint Janyl

Now the men who broke the bells are dust upon the plain
And the empire's flags are fading like the summer rain
And I don't know how or when but I believe one day
They'll be hanging in the tower where they used to stay
And the whole wide valley's gonna hear the sound
Of the bells of Saint Janyl ringing all around

Old woman, keep the hour
Old woman, keep the faith
The silence is a promise
And the morning's on its way

CHORUS:
Ring, bells of Saint Janyl
Ring across the snow
Ring for the ones who waited
Ring for the ones who go
Every evening, every morning
When the shadows fall
I can hear you in the silence
Bells of Saint Janyl

Well I went there in the springtime, nineteen ninety-three
And the doors stood open on the hill for all to see
There were no bells in the tower yet that Easter day
So they beat the old wooden board the ancient way
And a thousand voices rose up where the bronze had been
And the old woman stood among them, singing it again

CHORUS:
Ring, bells of Saint Janyl
Ring across the snow
Ring for the ones who waited
Ring for the ones who go
Every evening, every morning
When the shadows fall
I can hear you in the silence
Bells of Saint Janyl

Bells of Saint Janyl