The Hunchback Of Notre Dame movie - The Bells of Notre Dame lyrics
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Clopin: <br>
Morning in Paris, the city awakes<br>
To the bells of Notre Dame<br>
The fisherman fishes, the bakerman bakes<br>
To the bells of Notre Dame<br>
To the big bells as loud as the thunder<br>
To the little bells soft as a psalm<br>
And some say the soul of the city's<br>
The toll of the bells<br>
The bells of Notre Dame<br>
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Listen, they're beautiful, no?<br>
So many colors of sound, so many changing moods<br>
Because you know, they don't ring all by themselves<br>
- They don't? -<br>
No, silly boy.<br>
Up there, high, high in the dark bell tower<br>
lives the mysterious bell ringer.<br>
Who is this creature - Who? -<br>
What is he? - What? -<br>
How did he come to be there - How? -<br>
Hush, and Clopin will tell you<br>
It is a tale, a tale of a man and a monster.<br>
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Dark was the night when our tale was begun<br>
On the docks near Notre Dame<br>
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Man #1: <br>
Shup it up, will you!<br>
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Man #2: <br>
We'll be spotted!<br>
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Gypsy: <br>
Hush, little one.<br>
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Clopin: <br>
Four frightened gypsies slid silently under<br>
The docks near Notre Dame<br>
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Man #3: <br>
Four guilders for safe passage into Paris<br>
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Clopin: <br>
But a trap had been laid for the gypsies<br>
And they gazed up in fear and alarm<br>
At a figure whose clutches<br>
Were iron as much as the bells<br>
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Man #4: <br>
Judge Claude Frollo<br>
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Clopin: <br>
The bells of Notre Dame<br>
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Chorus: <br>
Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)<br>
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Clopin: <br>
Judge Claude Frollo longed<br>
To purge the world<br>
Of vice and sin<br>
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Chorus: <br>
Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)<br>
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Clopin: <br>
And he saw corruption<br>
Ev'rywhere<br>
Except within<br>
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Frollo: <br>
Bring these gypsy vermin to the palace of justice<br>
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Guard: <br>
You there, what are you hiding?<br>
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Frollo: <br>
Stolen goods, no doubt. Take them from her<br>
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Clopin: <br>
She ran<br>
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Chorus: <br>
Dies irae, dies illa (Day of wrath, that day)<br>
Solvet saeclum in favilla (Shall consume the world in ashes)<br>
Teste David cum sibylla (As prophesied by David and the sibyl)<br>
Quantus tremor est futurus (What trembling is to be)<br>
Quando Judex est venturus (When the Judge is come)<br>
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Gypsy: <br>
Sanctuary, please give us sanctuary<br>
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Frollo: <br>
A baby? A monster!<br>
<br>
Archdeacon: <br>
Stop!<br>
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Clopin: <br>
Cried the Archdeacon<br>
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Frollo: <br>
This is an unholy deamon.<br>
I'm sending it back to hell, where it belongs.<br>
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Archdeacon: <br>
See there the innocent blood you have spilt<br>
On the steps of Notre Dame<br>
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Frollo: <br>
I am guiltless. She ran, I pursued.<br>
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Archdeacon: <br>
Now you would add this child's blood to your guilt<br>
On the steps of Notre Dame<br>
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Frollo: <br>
My conscience is clear<br>
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Archdeacon: <br>
You can lie to yourself and your minions<br>
You can claim that you haven't a qualm<br>
But you never can run from<br>
Nor hide what you've done from the eyes<br>
The very eyes of Notre Dame<br>
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Chorus: <br>
Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)<br>
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Clopin: <br>
And for one time in his live<br>
Of power and control<br>
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Chorus: <br>
Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)<br>
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Clopin: <br>
Frollo felt a twinge of fear<br>
For his immortal soul<br>
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Frollo: <br>
What must I do?<br>
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Archdeacon: <br>
Care for the child, and raise it as your own<br>
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Frollo: <br>
What? I'd be settled with this misshapen ..?<br>
Very well. Let him live with you, in your church.<br>
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Archdeacon: <br>
Live here? Where?<br>
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Frollo: <br>
Anywhere<br>
Just so he's kept locked away<br>
Where no one else can see<br>
The bell tower, perhaps<br>
And who knows, our Lord works in mysterious ways<br>
Even this foul creature may<br>
Yet prove one day to be<br>
Of use to me<br>
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Clopin: <br>
And Frollo gave the child a cruel name<br>
A name that means half-formed, Quasimodo<br>
Now here is a riddle to guess if you can<br>
Sing the bells of Notre Dame<br>
Who is the monster and who is the man?<br>
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Clopin and Chorus: <br>
Sing the bells, bells, bells, bells<br>
Bells, bells, bells, bells<br>
Bells of Notre Dame<br>
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