Bible Songs — Temperance Songs

Ring It Out!

Ring it out! ring it out on ev'ry hand;

No. 1380
Tune RING IT OUT!
Words E. P. Hakes.
Music D. S. Hakes.
Key D major
Singing key C major
Time 2/4
3 stanzas

Words

Ring it out! ring it out on ev'ry hand;Reformation has begun.Ring it out! ring it out through all the land;Victory is almost won.'Tis war to the death with wine and beer,With ale and gin and whisky too;Then join in our union, never fear,—Be earnest, faithful, firm, and true.

Chorus.

Ring it out! ring it out! Let the reign of peace begin!Ring it out with a shout! Temperance is bound to win!

Ring the bells in the East and in the West;Reformation has begun.All unite in the war-cry—do your best;Let the work be grandly done.Then raise up the standard, swell the song,And press the foe on ev'ry field,Till justice shall triumph over wrong,And all the hosts of evil yield.

Ring it out! ring it out in ev'ry home;Reformation has begun.Let the young hear the call, let old age come,Ev'ry heart should join as one.Then labor at morn and work at noon,Nor rest when ev'ning shadows fall;For victory grand shall crown us soon,And truth and right shall reign o'er all.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: hymn number «1380» (large) at the left, title «RING IT OUT!» centred (condensed bold capitals with larger initials); under it the epigraph in one line of smaller roman (given below; the thin space before the colon closed up; the reference «Jer. 58:1.» is kept as printed — the words are Isaiah 58:1, a printer's slip, see `uncertainties.md`); «E. P. HAKES.» (the words) at the left and «D. S. HAKES.» (the music) at the right above system 1, both in capitals and small capitals; «rit.» over the third system; «CHORUS.» in bold capitals over the chorus (fourth system, after the heavy bar); «Copyrighted 1880 by J. E. White.» under the music, folio «588». The page holds this hymn only; it belongs to the section «Temperance Songs» of the Bible Songs (CONTENTS: 1378-1391). No meter, no tune name other than the title, no reference line. The three stanzas are interlinear in the first four systems, numbered «1.»–«3.» in system 1; the CHORUS is printed once (systems 4-5, one line of words) and is sung after every stanza. Verse lines are given one per line, by the rhymes (hand/land, begun/won, beer/fear, too/true; West/best, begun/done, song/wrong, field/yield; home/come, begun/one, noon/soon, fall/all) and the music's phrases; the chorus in two lines, each ending on its rhyme (begin!/win!). Words divided under the notes are joined («ev - 'ry», «Ref - or ma - tion» — the hyphen after «or» is missing in stanza 1 —, «be - gun», «u- / nite» across the system break, «Vic - to - ry», «war - cry» kept as the compound «war-cry», «la-bor», «whis - ky», «un - ion», «nev-er», «o-ver», «vic-tory», «earn - est», «faith - ful», «e - vil», «be-gin», «Tem - per-ance»); words printed solid under two notes stay solid («almost», «grandly», «Ev'ry», «standard», «ev'ning», «shadows», «justice», «triumph»). The chorus has «ring it ont!» — a turned «u» for «out!» (printer's slip, kept as printed, see `uncertainties.md`). The print sets a thin space before «!», «;» and «:»; it is closed up here. Spelling («Ev'ry», «ev'ning», «o'er», «'Tis», «whisky», «labor»), punctuation and capitals are the print's; apostrophes and quotation marks are written straight.