Tone the Bell Easy Harry Belafonte

When you hear that I am dying
And my song it should be sung
Just say I lived the way I pleased
And spoke with a free man's tongue

So when they fit me to the stone
And close my grass's cell
I don't want no crying on my grave
A just ring that charming bell

And you can tone the bell easy
Tone it all around
Tone the bell easy
When they lay my body down

When I was just a cabin boy
On the freighter "Annalee"
The first mate was a salty dog
And this he said to me

I'll take the women, wine and song
And life will serve me well
`Cause brother it will be too late
When they're ringing that final bell

And you can tone the bell easy
Tone it all around
Tone the bell easy
When they lay my body down