Wake his mother and ring the bell

In "Christmastime in Hell", the lyric goes:

'...we gotta make room for Andy Dick So wake his mother and ring the bell....'

The phrase "ring the bell" in reference to death or hell sounds familiar, but I can't place the source. Any ideas?

-Jack

Behold! With a mighty clap of thunder there appeared out of the swirling mists a stone tablet. Of unkown origin, it bore the signature of "Jack Cooper" who etched the following upon its surface....

Perhaps you refer to the Hemingway novel 'For Whom The Bell Tolls.' "Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee."

<<The phrase "ring the bell" in reference to death or hell sounds familiar, but I can't place the source. Any ideas?>>

The only thing that comes to mind is a WW I song, which goes, in part, "The bells of hell go ding a ling a ling, for you but not for me, and the little devils, how they sing a ling a ling, for you but not for me. O death, where is thy sting a ling a ling..." and so on.

Any theologians out there, who know?

Maybe from Monty Python - Holy Grail - Where they wander around dinging the bell and yelling "bring out dead", when the town has been hit by the black plague.

Cheryl3b wrote in message ...

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Simon & Cristel Taylor wrote:

My guess would be poetry and not theology albeit poetry by a religious person:

"...and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee" - John Donne

This line has been done to death, thanks to many people, including Hemingway and definitely speaks to our sense of mortality but I will check the book and see if the notes refer to any scripture - 'kay, I checked and it appears that there was a specific bell tolled for the dying, called "the passing bell"...

Near as I can figure, it refers to an age before television, telephone, and print, when important events were announced by ringing the church or town bell. At the sound of the bell, the villagers would congregate at the town square or the church to see what was up. In the song, then, the bell would be rung to call everyone in hell to come and welcome Andy Dick. He must be pretty bad to merit this much attentionn from Satan.

--- Willie Westwood

Did anyone catch the Andy Dick reference on the Simpsons last night? Homer is trying to get Bart to take his Focusin (and was is ADD night on Fox or something?) and talks about how all of his favorite stars take drugs. Homer: And Andy Dick Bart: He's just flamboyant Homer: Yeah, and I'm a size 8. OK, i'm sure I messed up the dialog, but it was a long weekend, filled with booze, drugs, sex, and no SP :(

Jeremiah

Willie Westwood wrote in message ...

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