Somebody Bad Stole De Wedding Bell

Album

Fire Down Below: Music With a Calypso Beat

Label

Mercury Records

Genre

Stage & Screen

Composer(s)

Dave Mann;Bob Hilliard

Entered Chart

Mar 20, 1954

Peak Date

Apr 17, 1954

Released

Unknown

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

Mercury 70298

B-Side

Baubles, Bangles & Beads

CHORUS:  
Somebody bad stole de wedding bell
Somebody bad stole de wedding bell
Somebody bad stole de wedding bell
Now, nobody can get married

Who's got the ding dong who's got the bell
Who's got the ding dong who's got the bell
Somebody know but nobody tell
Cause somebody bad stole de wedding bell
We got sarsaparilla soda on the ice
We got shoes and rice and free advice
We got a bridal sweet in honeymoon hotel
But what good is that without a wedding bell

CHORUS

REPEAT LAST 4 LINES OF CHORUS

All day the people look at the steeple
But they don't see the bell

We got very fine detective, Shiller Gun
And he's sure to question everyone
So in the marketplace where people buy and sell
He's sure to arrest anyone who sells the bell

Who's got the ding dong who's got the bell
Who's got the ding dong who's got the bell
Somebody know but nobody tell
Cause somebody bad stole de wedding bell

We got soloed by the island singing band
We got lots of sun and lots of sand
We got lover's moon we got a wishing well
And oh how I wish we had a wedding bell

CHORUS