While The Angelus Was Ringing (Les Trois Cloches)

Written by: Dick Manning

Written by: Jean Willard

Arranged by: Axel Stordahl

From the Album: Columbia Years, 1943-1952

Label: Columbia Records

Recorded: December 19, 1948

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While the Angelus was ringing, calling for the evening pray'r,

I could hear the choir singing and I saw you standing there.

Silently I stood beside you, how my heart was beating then,

For my dreams have all come true, I was safely back with you,

Never more to roam again.

Then the great cathedral spire seemed to come alive and say

Through the voices of the choir, there will be a wedding day.

Then a golden ray of sunlight, from a window in the sky,

Shone upon us from above, heaven's blessing on our love,

Now our love will never die.

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Then a golden ray of sunlight, from a window in the sky,

Shone upon us from above, heaven's blessing on our love,

Now our love will never die.