I've been a wayward wanderer, but found I like to rest
In my home up in the mountains, the place I love the best.
I wandered to the City in quest of better times

But now I am returning to my home up in the pines.

So ring your bell, bellbird, you're a-calling me back home

To my home up in the mountains no more I will roam
For there will be contentment, and my heart will be at ease
Where the bellbird's call at evening floats on the mountain breeze.


It seems I hear the bellbird in the valley far below
It brings back old-time memories of the days so long ago

So I'm finished with my wandering - I'm goin' to settle down
In this wild little valley 'bout a hundred miles from town


So ring your bell, bellbird, you're a-calling me back home
To my home up in the mountains no more I will roam
For there will be contentment, and my heart will be at ease

Where the bellbird's call at evening floats on the mountain breeze

I'm leaving in the morning - I'll soon be back again

To my life up in the mountains where my heart will know no pain
And then again at evening I'll sit outside the door
Just to listen to the bellbirds and hear their call once more


So ring your bell, bellbird, you're a-calling me back home
To my home up in the mountains no more I will roam

For there will be contentment, and my heart will be at ease
Where the bellbird's call at evening floats on the mountain breeze


Ring ting-a-ling-a ring ting-a-ling-a bellbird
Ring ting-a-ling-a call me back home
Ring ting-a-ling-a ring ting-a-ling-a bellbird

Ring ting-a-ling-a call me back home
Ring ting-a-ling-a call me back home