(Bill Meek)
Chorus:
Ding dong the bellman's song
Ringing loud and ringing long
Ding dong among the throng
The crooked streets echo the bellman's song
Good people all come hear my bell
Both rich and poor take warning
I ring the Curfew and the Prime
And mark the march of rascal time
And sing the news in cheerful rhyme
Around the town each morning
The sun is up, the morning's fair
Awake ye drowsy sleepers
Here's judgement new on tithes and doles
Here's news of taxes and of tolls
The price of turf and the price of coal
And farmers needing reapers
An ordinary will be held
Behind the Fleece tomorrow
With greasy pole and jingling match
With donkey race and hogtail snatch
And minstrels too with song and catch
To drive away all sorrow
Through shining noon to slumbrous night
Across the sky comes creeping
In mansion great or cottage small
None dare dismiss the bellman's call
For time makes slavies of us all
And time is in my keeping
(as sung by The McCalmans)