The Bells of Notre Dame

Song: The Bells of Notre Dame

Artist: From, Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame

For being a cartoon movie made for kids, The Hunchback of Notre Dame is quite disturbing and sinister. But it's got beautiful music! This song feels the most "Halloween" because of the line "Who is the MONSTER and who is the man?" 👹 This song is beautiful, chilling, eerie and haunting.

Olim

Olim deus accelere

Hoc saeculum splendidum

Accelere fiat venire olim

Ah-ah-ah

Ah-ah-ah

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

Ah-ah-ah

Ah-ah-ah

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

Morning in Paris, the city awakes

To the bells of Notre Dame

The fisherman fishes, the bakerman bakes

To the bells of Notre Dame

To the big bells as loud as the thunder

To the little bells soft as a psalm

And some say the soul of the city's

The toll of the bells

The bells of Notre Dame

Listen, they're beautiful, no?

So many colours of sound, so many changing moods

Because you know, they don't ring all by themselves

They don't?

No, silly boy

Up there, high, high in the dark bell tower

Lives the mysterious bell ringer

Who is this creature?

Who?

What is he?

What?

How did he come to be there?

How?

Hush, and Clopin will tell you

It is a tale, a tale of a man and a monster

Dark was the night when our tale was begun

On the docks near Notre Dame

Shut it up, will you!

We'll be spotted!

Hush, little one

Four frightened gypsies slid silently under

The docks near Notre Dame

Four guilders for safe passage into Paris

But a trap had been laid for the gypsies

And they gazed up in fear and alarm

At a figure whose clutches

Were iron as much as the bells

Judge Claude Frollo!

The bells of Notre Dame

Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)

Judge Claude Frollo longed

To purge the world

Of vice and sin

Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)

And he saw corruption

Ev'rywhere

Except within

[Frollo, spoken]

Bring these gypsy vermin to the palace of justice

You there, what are you hiding?

[Frollo]

Stolen goods, no doubt. Take them from her

She ran

Dies irae, dies illa (Day of wrath, that day)

Solvet saeclum in favilla (Shall consume the world in ashes)

Teste David cum sibylla (As prophesied by David and the sibyl)

Quantus tremor est futurus (What trembling is to be)

Quando Judex est venturus (When the Judge is come)

[Woman, spoken]

Sanctuary, please give us sanctuary!

[Frollo]

A baby? A monster!

[Archdeacon]

Stop!

Cried the Archdeacon

[Frollo, spoken]

This is an unholy deamon

I am sending it back to Hell, where it belongs

[Archdeacon, sung]

See there the innocent blood you have spilt

On the steps of Notre Dame

[Frollo, spoken]

I am guiltless. She ran, I pursued

[Archdeacon, sung]

Now you would add this child's blood to your guilt

On the steps of Notre Dame

[Frollo, spoken]

My conscience is clear!

[Archdeacon, sung]

You can lie to yourself and your minions

You can claim that you haven't a qualm

But you never can run from

Nor hide what you've done from the eyes

The very eyes of Notre Dame

Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)

And for one time in his life

Of power and control

Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)

Frollo felt a twinge of fear

For his immortal soul

[Frollo, spoken]

What must I do?

[Archdeacon]

Care for the child, and raise it as your own

[Frollo]

What? I'm to be saddled with this misshapen...?

Very well. Let him live with you, in your church

[Archdeacon]

Live here? Where?

[Frollo]

Anywhere

(Sung)

Just so he's kept locked away

Where no one else can see

(Spoken)

The bell tower, perhaps

And who knows, our Lord works in mysterious ways

(Sung)

Even this foul creature may

Yet prove one day to be

Of use to me

And Frollo gave the child a cruel name

A name that means "half-formed":

Quasimodo

(Sung)

Now here is a riddle to guess if you can

Sing the bells of Notre Dame

Who is the monster and who is the man?

Sing the bells, bells, bells, bells

Bells, bells, bells, bells

Bells of Notre Dame

(Ah-ah-ah

Ah-ah-ah

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah)

Bringing back my "metal friend!" 😝 Gives this song an even more intense and spooky vibe!

WHO IS THE MONSTER AND WHO IS THE MAN...SING THE BELLS OF NOTRE DAME!! 👹🔔