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Sheet music to "Liberty Bell (It's Time To Ring Again)" Vintage Audio: Liberty Bell (It's Time to Ring Again)
Updated - Sunday, 19 January, 2003

Reproduced below are the lyrics to the popular American wartime song, Liberty Bell (It's Time to Ring Again).

With music by Halsey K. Mohr and lyrics by Joe Goodwin, this 1917 song was effectively a musical call to arms although it was not so much a march as a traditional tune. The sheet music cover (see picture) powerfully combined the images of George Washington, the U.S. flag and the Liberty Bell. Its message was clear.

Click here to listen to a variation of the song performed by the Peerless Quartet in 1917 (MP3 format 667kb).

Liberty Bell (It's Time to Ring Again)

VERSE 1:
You have rest-ed, Lib-er-ty Bell, for a hun-dred years and more,
End your slum-ber Lib-er-ty Bell, ring as you did be-fore,
It's time to wake 'em up, it's time to shake 'em up,
It's a cause worth ring-ing for:

CHORUS:
Lib-er-ty Bell, it's time to ring a-gain,
Lib-er-ty Bell, it's time to swing a-gain,
We're in the same sort of fix, we were in sev-en-ty-six,
And we are read-y to mix and ral-ly 'round you like we did be-fore, oh!
Lib-er-ty Bell, your voice is need-ed now,
Lib-er-ty Bell, we'll hear your call, one and all,
Though you're old and there's a crack in you
Don't for-get Old Glor-y's back-in' you,
Oh! Lib-er-ty Bell, it's time to ring a-gain.

VERSE 2:
Once you rang out, Lib-er-ty Bell, as we watched Old Glor-y wave,
You have made us, Lib-er-ty Bell, Land of the Free and Brave,
It's time to sing a-gain, it's time to ring a-gain,
For the cause you've got to save:

A "Dixie" (from the Hindi degci) was an army cooking pot.