Roy Black – Tone The Bell Easy (Guitar)

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Tabbed by: http://www.andreasvockrodt.de [Intro] 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.