The Browns (#1 in
August 1959),
Roy Orbison, Edith Piaf, Andy Williams
There’s a village hidden deep in the valley
Among the pine trees half forlorn
And there on a sunny morning
Little jimmy brown was born
(bung, bung, bung, bung)
All the chapel bells were ringing in the little valley
town
And the song that they were singing was for baby jimmy
brown
Then the little congregation prayed for guidance from
above
Lead us not into temptation, bless this hour of meditation
Guide him with eternal love
There’s a village hidden deep in the valley
Beneath the mountains high above
And there, twenty years thereafter
Jimmy was to meet his love
(bung, bung, bung, bung)
All the chapel bells were ringing, ’twas a great day
in his life
’cause the songs that they were singing was for jimmy
and his wife
Then the little congregation prayed for guidance from
above
Lead us not into temptation, bless, oh lord this celebration
May their lives be filled with love
From the village hidden deep in the valley
One rainy morning dark and gray
A soul winged it’s way to heaven
Jimmy brown had passed away
(bung, bung, bung, bung)
Just a lonely bell was ringing in the little valley town
’twas farewell that it was singing to our little jimmy
brown
And the little congregation prayed for guidance from
above
Lead us not into temptation, may his soul find the salvation
Of thy great eternal love
-peak Billboard position # 1 in
1959
-Originally a French tune written in 1945, it was charted
at #14 in 1952 by Les Compagnons de la Chanson
-Variously known as "Les Trois Cloches" and "While the
Angelus Was Ringing."
-Original French words by Bert Reisfeld and Music by
Jean Villard
