The School Bell

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I'm the school bell, ding, dong, ding

Author: Edith Sanford Tillotson
Tune: [I'm the school bell, ding, dong]
Published in 2 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 I’m the school-bell, ding, dong, ding!
Listen to the song I sing,
When you hear me call to you,
Hurry in, your work to do,
Heed the Message that I bring,
Ding! Dong! Ding!

2 Come, my children, ding, dong, ding!
Never loiter when I ring,
Strong and true your lives will be
If you will attend to me,
If you’ll heed me when I ring,
Ding! Dong! Ding!

3 Thus I call you, ding, dong, ding!
To and from I gladly swing,
Little friends, I love you all,
That is why I often call,
That is why for you I ring,
Ding! Dong! Ding!

Source: Great Revival Hymns No. 2 #157

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Author: Edith Sanford Tillotson

Edith Sanford Tillotson was born and lived her entire life in Corona, New York. She wrote hymns for children as well as poems and librettos. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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