Down the dim valley beneath the blue sky
We follow the river with clear lover's eye
The birds would be singing and laughing they'd say
Ring your bells bell birds 'til our wedding day

Quiet was the valley, grey was the sky
Across the meadow a black raven's cry
A scratching and rasping sound of crow
Your lover was thrown to the pity of war

The valley stones echoed that grey battle gun
Friendship costumes were enemies spun
The bell birds' silence, one broken day
Heralded reason was slipping away

Deep in the valley her young soldier lies
The dust of the desert has covered his eyes
Alone she stumbles the skeleton way
Toll your bells bell birds for death's wedding day

Ring ring

Ring your bells bell birds for death's...wedding day