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Verse 1
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About a year ago, I heard this truly terrific,
absolutely true story.
And it just so happens
that I told a couple of friends of mine
this truly terrific, absolutely true story.
And it just so happens
that these friends of mine are songwriters.
And guess what happened? Right!
Truly terrific, absolutely true
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song.
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Gather around, I've got a story to tell
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She lives at 5 Riverside,
her name is Shirley DeVore
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And she traveled round the world
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to meet the guy next door
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Well, there was trouble inside
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apartment 29 -E
Cause Shirley's mother and dad
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were as upset as can be
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They said, hate to complain, dear,
and we don't like to grouse
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But you're nearly 32,
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you should get out of the house
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You gotta ring them bells
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You gotta ring them bells
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You gotta make them sing
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And really ring them bells
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It's such a happy thing
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To hear them ting -a -ling
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You gotta ring them bells
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Well, Shirley was thirty -one
Which she was loath to admit
And she had never been loved
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Which didn't thrill her a bit
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And so she sat and she thought
She thought for hours on end
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And said, I'll go to Chase,
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Where I got me a friend
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And so she borrowed a vow
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and called TWA
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And told her mother and dad
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that she was up and away
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I'm gonna travel the continent
a month, maybe two
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And haul me home a huzz
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if it's the last thing I do
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You gotta ring them bells,
you gotta ring them bells
You gotta make them sing
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and really ring them bells
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It's such a happy thing
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You gotta ring them bells
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She met a Londoner first,
but they did not hit it off
Cause every time she approached
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he got a bronchial cough
And so she went to Madrid
and met a handsome senor
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But he liked to throw the ball
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and he was known at a door
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She also bombed out in Brussels,
in Mallorca and Rome
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So someone said, try Dubrovnik, dear,
before you go home
Cause it's the kind of a town
where you'll be likely to fall
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And all the Tony Cognoscenti
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find the Balkans a ball
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You gotta ring them bells,
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you gotta ring them bells
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You gotta make them sing
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and really ring them bells
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It's such a happy thing
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to hear them ting -a -ling
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You gotta ring them
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bells
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And so she went to Dubrovnik
and the very first day
She met a guy on the beach
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who took her reason away
Yes, it was love at first sight
and quite a beautiful scene
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She said, my name is Cheryl DeVore
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He said, I'm Norm Saperstein
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She said, are you from New York?
He said, that can't be denied
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I've got a swell Junior 3 at
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number 5 Riverside
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Five? Five Riverside Drive in New York?
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That's where you live?
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That's where I live? Five? Are you sure?
As if that wasn't enough,
for Shirley thought she'd gone deaf
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When he told her he's apart
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when there was 29F
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Verse 2
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Guess she was E, he was F
And they had not even met
Until she traveled the world
He'd always been right next door
And she would never have known
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If she hadn't tried Dubrovnik
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She might still be alone
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Well, there's a long, long town line
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leave ya for a who has to borrow a bow
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to find a lover next door.
You girls who live in apartments,
don't you stare at the wall.
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Open up the door
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and hurry out in the hall.
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An d Ring them bells
Come on, come on
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Ring them bells
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Make them sing
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And let them ring the bells
It's such a happy thing
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To hear them ting -a -ling
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You gotta swing them
Ring them
Swing them
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