The Bells Of Notre Dame - David Ogden Stiers/Tony Jay.mp3

[00:52.50]Morning in Paris The city awakes
[00:55.50]To the bells of Notre Dame
[00:59.00]The fisherman fishes The baker man bakes
[01:02.50]To the bells of Notre Dame
[01:06.00]To the big bells as loud as the thunder
[01:09.00]To the little bells soft as a psalm
[01:13.00]And some say the soul of the city's the toll
[01:16.00]Of the bells
[01:20.00]The bells of Notre Dame
[01:27.00]Listen. They're beautiful, no?
[01:30.00]So many colors of sound, so many changing moods.
[01:34.00]Because you know they do not ring all by themselves.
[01:37.00]They don't? - No, you silly boy.
[01:39.00]Up there, high, high in the dark bell tower,
[01:43.00]lives the mysterious bell ringer.
[01:46.00]Who is this creature? - Who?
[01:48.00]What is he? - What?
[01:49.50]How did he come to be there? - How?
[01:52.00]Hush. Clopin will tell you. - Ow!
[01:56.00]It is a tale, a tale of a man...
[01:59.00]and a monster.
[02:02.00]Dark was the night when our tale was begun
[02:05.00]On the docks near Notre Dame - Shut it up, will you?
[02:08.50]We'll be spotted! - Hush, little one.
[02:11.00]Four frightened Gypsies slid silently under
[02:14.00]The docks near Notre Dame
[02:16.50]Four guilders for safe passage into Paris.
[02:18.50]A trap had been laid for the Gypsies
[02:21.50]And they gazed up in fear and alarm
[02:25.00]At a figure whose clutches
[02:26.50]Were iron as much as the bells - Judge Claude Frollo!
[02:31.00]The bells
[02:32.50]Of Notre Dame - Kyrie eleison
[02:38.50]Judge Claude Frollo longed to purge the world of vice and sin
[02:44.00]Kyrie eleison
[02:47.00]And he saw corruption
[02:49.00]Everywhere except within
[02:53.00]Bring these Gypsy vermin to the Palace of Justice.
[02:56.00]You there! What are you hiding?
[02:57.50]Stolen goods, no doubt. Take them from her.
[03:01.00]She ran.
[03:03.00]Dies irae Dies irae
[03:06.50]Dies illa Dies illa
[03:10.00]Solvet saeclum in favilla
[03:13.00]Aah!
[03:16.00]Quando tremor est futurus
[03:21.00]Quando judex est venturus
[03:23.50]Sanctuary! Please, give us sanctuary!
[03:27.00]Quando tremor est futurus
[03:34.00]Dies irae
[03:37.00]A baby?
[03:40.50]A monster!
[03:42.00]Solvet saeclum in favilla
[03:46.00]Dies irae Dies irae
[03:57.00]Stop! - ...cried the Archdeacon.
[04:00.00]This is an unholy demon. I'm sending it back to hell, where it belongs.
[04:05.00]See, there, the innocent blood you have spilt
[04:08.00]On the steps of Notre Dame
[04:10.00]I am guiltless. She ran. I pursued.
[04:13.00]Now you would add this child's blood to your guilt
[04:16.00]On the steps of Notre Dame - My conscience is clear.
[04:19.50]You can lie to yourself and your minions
[04:22.50]You can claim that you haven't a qualm
[04:26.00]But you never can run from
[04:28.00]Nor hide what you've done from the eyes
[04:32.50]The very eyes
[04:34.50]Of Notre Dame
[04:38.00]Kyrie eleison
[04:40.00]And for one time in his life
[04:43.00]Of power and control
[04:46.00]Kyrie eleison
[04:48.00]Frollo felt a twinge of fear for his immortal soul
[04:55.00]What must I do? - Care for the child and raise it as your own.
[04:59.00]What? I am to be saddled with this misshapen--
[05:03.50]Very well. But let him live with you in your church.
[05:07.00]Live here? Where? - Anywhere.
[05:11.00]Just so he's kept locked away where no one else can see
[05:15.00]The bell tower, perhaps.
[05:17.00]And who knows? Our Lord works in mysterious ways.
[05:22.00]Even this foul creature may yet prove one day to be
[05:27.00]Of use to me
[05:31.00]And Frollo gave the child a cruel name,
[05:34.50]a name that means, "half-formed."
[05:37.50]Quasimodo.
[05:40.00]Now here is a riddle to guess if you can
[05:44.50]Sing the bells of Notre Dame
[05:48.00]Who is the monster And who is the man
[05:53.00]Sing the bells, bells bells, bells
[05:57.00]Bells, bells bells, bells
[06:01.00]Bells of Notre Dame
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