The Bells of Notre Dame

"The Bells of Notre Dame" is the opening song from the 1996 Disney animated feature film, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, composed by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz. It is sung at the beginning of the film by the clown-like gypsy, Clopin.
==In the film==
The song details about Quasimodo's origin. During the song, Clopin tells young children about the mysterious bell-ringer of Notre Dame. He then talks about a story that goes back twenty years where a group of gypsies attempted to ferry their way into Paris, but a trap had been laid and most of them are captured and taken to the Palace of Justice by Judge Claude Frollo and several soldiers to be executed. When Quasimodo's mother amongst gypsies is seen carrying a bundle, a guard attempts to confiscate it, prompting her to flee.
Frollo pursues her on his horse, believing her to have stolen goods, in a brutal chase that comes to a head on the steps of Notre Dame Cathedral. Here, he takes the bundle out of her arm, but, in doing so, strikes a blow to her head with his boot, causing her to fall down onto the stone steps, breaking her neck and killing her. He then learns that the bundle is actually a deformed baby which he dubs "A monster!". He sees a well and attempts to drown him, as he believes it's a demon from Hell, but is stopped by the Archdeacon, who tells him that he has killed an innocent woman and that, if he wishes for the survival of his immortal soul, he must spare the child and raise as his own. He reluctantly does so and raises the baby in the bell tower of Notre Dame and gives him a cruel name, Quasimodo, which, according to Clopin, means "half-formed". It is quickly learned that Quasimodo is the mysterious bell-ringer.
It is a grand, atmospheric way to open one of Disney's darker and more dramatic animated films.
==In the American stage musical==
In the American musical version, the lyrics of this song are rewritten in order to tell a different backstory.
Here, the song relates how the orphaned young Claude Frollo and his younger brother Jehan are taken in to live in Notre Dame and spend many years there. The righteous and law-abiding Frollo cares for Jehan, and is dismayed to see him become wild and flout the rules. Things come to a head when Jehan brings a gypsy woman, Florika, to seduce Frollo and draw him into Jehan's fun-loving ways, but Frollo angrily rebuffs her. Their superior Father Dupin arrives on the scene, and when Jehan hides Florika and lies about her, Frollo exposes Jehan's actions, unwittingly prompting Dupin to expel the latter from Notre Dame.
After several years, during which Frollo quickly ascends to the level of Archdeacon and hears nothing from Jehan, he finally receives a letter. Journeying out to meet Jehan and finding him very sick, Frollo offers to bring him back to heal in Notre Dame. Jehan replies that it is too late as he is now dying, but tells Frollo that there is someone he can help: the new baby son of Jehan and the now-dead Florika. Frollo discovers that his baby nephew is monstrous in appearance and demurs, thinking this is God's punishment for Jehan's sins, but Jehan makes one last plea to his brother before dying. In a panic, Frollo briefly considers killing the baby, but stops when he feels the "gaze of God" upon him. Deciding that this is a test from the Lord, he resolves to adopt and raise the baby.
The lyrics from the final portion of the song are unaltered, relating how Frollo gives the baby the "cruel name" of Quasimodo, meaning half-formed. However, the line "What makes a monster and what makes a man?" is given a different context, as it is sung by the actor of Quasimodo himself as he enters and is then made up as the titular hunchback onstage with a pillow strapped to his back and paint applied to his face.
==Lyrics==
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Film Version=
Chorus: Olim (Someday)
Olim, Deus accelere (Someday, Godspeed)
Hoc sæculum splendium (This bright millennium)
Accelere fiat venire olim (Let it come someday)
Clopin: Morning in Paris, the city awakes
To the bells of Notre Dame
The fisherman fishes, the bakerman bakes
To the bells of Notre Dame
To the big bells as loud as the thunder
To the little bells soft as a 
And some say the soul of the city's
The toll of the bells
The bells of Notre Dame
(song stops, speaking segment begins)
Listen, they're beautiful, no?
So many colors of sound, so many changing moods
Because you know, they don't ring all by themselves
Clopin puppet: They don't?
Clopin: No, you silly boy.
Up there, high, high in the dark bell tower lives the mysterious bell ringer.
Who is this creature?
Clopin puppet: Who?
Clopin: What is he?
Clopin puppet: What?
Clopin: How did he come to be there?
Clopin puppet: How?
Clopin: (bonks puppet on the head) Hush! 
Clopin puppet: Ow!
Clopin: And Clopin will tell you.
It is a tale, a tale of a man and a monster.
(song resumes, scene changes to flashback)
Clopin: Dark was the night when our tale was begun
On the docks near Notre Dame
Quasimodo's Father: Shut it up, will you!
Man #2: We'll be spotted!!
Quasimodo's Mother: Hush, little one.
Clopin: Four frightened gypsies slid silently under
The docks near Notre Dame
Barge Driver: Four guilders for safe passage into Paris
Clopin: But a trap had been laid for the gypsies
And they gazed up in fear and alarm
At a figure whose clutches
Were iron as much as the bells
Quasimodo's father: Judge Claude Frollo!
Clopin: The bells of Notre Dame
Chorus: Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)
Clopin: Judge Claude Frollo longed to purge the world of vice and sin
Chorus: Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)
Clopin: And he saw corruption everywhere, except within
Frollo: (speaking) Bring these gypsy vermin to the palace of justice.
Guard: You there! What are you hiding?
Frollo: Stolen goods, no doubt. Take them from her!
Clopin: (speaking) She ran.
Chorus: Dies iræ (dies iræ), dies illa (dies illa) (Day of wrath, that day)
Solvet sæclum in favilla (Shall consume the world in ashes)
Teste David cum sibylla (As prophesied by David and the sibyl)
Quantus tremor est futurus (What trembling is to be)
(Dies iræ) (Day of wrath)
Quando Judex est venturus (When the Judge is come)
Quasimodo's mother: Sanctuary! Please give us sanctuary!!
Chorus: Quantus tremor est futurus (What trembling is to be)
(Dies iræ) (Day of wrath)
Quando Judex est venturus (When the Judge is come)
(Dies iræ) (Day of wrath)
Frollo: A baby? [Gasp!] A monster!
Chorus: Solvet sæclum in favilla (Shall consume the world in ashes)
Dies iræ, dies illa (Day of wrath, that day)
Clopin: "Stop!" cried the Archdeacon.
Frollo: This is an unholy demon. I'm sending it back to Hell, where it belongs.
Archdeacon: (singing) See there the innocent blood you have spilt
On the steps of Notre Dame
Frollo: (speaking) I am guiltless. She ran, I pursued.
Archdeacon: Now you would add this child's blood to your guilt
On the steps of Notre Dame?
Frollo: (speaking) My conscience is clear!
Archdeacon: You can lie to yourself and your minions
You can claim that you haven't a 
But you never can run from nor hide what you've done from the eyes
The very eyes of Notre Dame
Chorus: Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)
Clopin: And for one time in his life
Of power and control
Chorus: Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)
Clopin: Frollo felt a twinge of fear
For his 
Frollo: What must I do?
Archdeacon: (speaking) Care for the child, and raise it as your own
Frollo: What?! I'm to be saddled with this misshapen…?
Very well. Let him live with you, in your church.
Archdeacon: Live here? Where?
Frollo: Anywhere.
(singing) Just so he's kept locked away where no one else can see
(speaking) The bell tower, perhaps. And who knows? Our Lord works in mysterious ways
(singing resumes) Even this foul creature may
Yet prove one day to be
Of use to me
(scene changes to puppet show)
Clopin: (speaking) And Frollo gave the child a cruel name
A name that means half-formed: Quasimodo
(singing) Now here is a riddle to guess if you can
Sing the bells of Notre Dame
Who is the monster and who is the man?
Clopin and Chorus: Sing the bells, bells, bells, bells
Bells, bells, bells, bells
Bells of Notre Dame!
|-|Reprise Version=
Clopin: So here is a riddle to guess if you can, sing the bells of Notre Dame
What makes a monster and what makes a man?
Chorus: Sing the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells…
Clopin: Whatever their pitch you, can feel them bewitch you
The rich and the ritual knells…
Clopin and Chorus: Of the bells of Notre Dame!
|-|German Musical Version=
Clopin: Morning in Paris, the city awakes
To the bells of Notre Dame
The fisherman fishes, the baker man bakes
To the bells of Notre Dame
To the big bells as loud as the thunder
To the little bells soft as a psalm
And some say the soul of
The city's the toll of the bells
The bells of Notre Dame
Listen, they are beautiful, aren't they? The bells. So many colors of sound, so many changing moods. But, they do not ring all by themselves. No, there is a bellringer.
Now, to hear these bells is to be reminded of an extraordinary time, when this lowly bellringer brought Paris to its knees. And who better to tell you this story than someone who knows it best of all? But, I must warn you in advance. You are about to see an ugly monster. Just who that might be is for you to decide.
Dark was the night when our tale was begun
On the docks near Notre Dame
Gypsy Mother: Hush, little one.
Clopin: Four frightened Gypsies slid silently under
The docks near Notre Dame
Gypsy Mother: Please, please be quiet.
Clopin: But a trap had been laid for the Gypsies
And they gazed up in fear and alarm
At a figure whose clutches
Were iron as much as the bells
The bells of Notre Dame
One of the most powerful officials in Paris was the Minister of Justice.
Justice Frollo was a man
With morals so pristine
That he swore he would make
All of Paris is just as clean
Frollo: You there! What are you hiding? 
Gypsy Mother: Please Sir, I only come into the city seeking help for my baby! 
Frollo: A baby? Likely story. What have you stolen? See what that gypsy has in her hands.
Clopin: And the poor woman ran for her life!
Gypsy Mother: Sanctuary! Please give us sanctuary!
Frollo: This is a child of Satan! I shall send it back where it belongs.
Clopin: "Stop!" cried the Archdeacon.
Archdeacon: What have you done? What have you in your hands?
Frollo: An unholy demon that this woman has borne.
Archdeacon: Lord help us! She's dead!
Frollo: Dead?
Archdeacon: See here the innocent blood you have spilt
On the steps of Notre Dame
Frollo: I was merely enforcing the law. I never meant to hurt her.
Archdeacon: Now you would add this child's blood to your guilt
On the steps of Notre Dame?
Frollo: This misshapen monster can have no life here!
Archdeacon: You can lie to yourself and your minions
You can claim that you haven't a qualm
But you never can run from
Nor hide what you've done from the eyes
The very eyes of Notre Dame!
Clopin: And the saints looked down on Frollo
From their stone façade
And he knew he must do penance
In the eyes of God
Frollo: You're right, father. God has given me this challenge. I will take this… thing and look after it. But I ask a favor of you in return.
Archdeacon: What is it?
Frollo: I have no home to speak of. Let him live here, in the church.
Archdeacon: Live here? Where?
Frollo: Anywhere. The bell tower, perhaps. And let us agree never to speak of what has happened here today. In return, I will raise the child as my own.
Archdeacon: Very well.
Frollo: See this loathsome creature
From whom lesser men would flee
I will ennoble him.
I will keep and care for him
And teach him at my knee
To think like me
Clopin: And he gave the child a thoughtless name – a name that means "half-formed" – Quasimodo.
Now… here is a riddle to guess, if you can
Sing the bells of Notre Dame
Who is the monster and who is the man?
Chorus: Sing the bells,... bells of Notre Dame!
|-|American Musical Version=
Chorus: Olim, olim, Deus accelere (Someday, someday, God speed)
Hoc sæculum splendium (This bright millennium)
Accelere fiat venire olim (Let it come someday)
Congregation: Morning in Paris, the city awakes
To the Bells of Notre Dame
The fisherman fishes, the bakerman bakes
To the Bells of Notre Dame
Phoebus: To the big bells as loud as the thunder
Congregation: To the little bells soft as a psalm
And some say the soul of the city's
The toll of the Bells
The Bells of Notre Dame
Long years ago did this story begin
in this place called Notre Dame
Two orphan brothers were both taken in
by the Grace of Notre Dame
Frollo: Claude, the older who cared for his brother
Jehan: Young Jehan, full of beauty and charm
Both: And they lived and they grew
And awoke to the music of Bells
The Bells of Notre Dame
Chorus: Kyrie, Eléison (Lord, have mercy)
Frollo: Oh dear brother
Meet these arches and this Sacred dome
Chorus: Kyrie, Eléison (Lord, have mercy)
Frollo: We are Blessed to find our
Sanctuary and our home.
Congregation: Righteous Claude Frollo 
Was ever more drawn 
Like a son to Notre Dame
Not like his profligate brother Jehan
Who'd have none of Notre Dame
Though as brothers they loved one another
Frollo watched in despair and alarm
As Jehan who grew wild 
And defied and defiled
All the Laws
The Laws of Notre Dame
Chorus: Kyrie, Eléison (Lord, have mercy)
Father Dupin: You must leave, Jehan, 
This holy refuge where you've dwelled
Jehan: Leave? But Father—
Father Dupin: Sorry Claude, but I've no choice
Your brother is expelled
Congregation: And Frollo didn't hear from his brother for several years. Meanwhile…
Frollo was acsended 
Uncommonly fast through the ranks of Notre Dame
Till he was named the Archdeacon at last
And gave thanks to Notre Dame
And then one doleful day got a message
Frollo:
And the name that it bore was "Jehan"
Congregation:
And concealing his face 
Frollo strolled to a place
Far away…
Away from Notre Dame
Frollo: Jehan! …Let me take you back. I'll bring you home.
Brother dearest, come with me
Where we will find a remedy
And Notre Dame once more will be
Your Sanctuary
Healing you will be my goal
Not just your body, but your soul
We’ll be together in our Holy Sanctuary
Jehan: Enough, Claude! It's too late for me anyway. But if you have truly discovered charity at this late date, there is someone you can help.
Frollo: A baby? Yours? A…a monster! It's God's punishment on you! The wicked shall not go unpunished!
Jehan: I should have known! I was a fool to think you'd look after him!
Frollo: Look after him? Me?
Jehan: There is no one else! Take him…if you can find anymore heart.
Frollo: Jehan? Jehan?!
Chorus: Dies iræ, dies illa (Day of wrath, that day)
Solvet sæclum in favilla (Shall consume the world in ashes)
Kyrie, Eléison (Lord, have mercy)
Congregation: And the Saints regarded Frollo
From their stone façade
Chorus: Kyrie, Eléison (Lord, have mercy)
Congregation: And he felt their gaze
As if it were the Eyes of God
Frollo: O Lord, You've sent me a test. This child is my cross to bear. I may not have saved my brother, but I will save this… thing.
See this loathesome creature
From whom lesser men would flee
I will keep and care for him
And teach him at my knee
To think like me
Congregation: And Frollo gave the child a name. A cruel name that means half-formed…
Frollo: Quasimodo!
Congregation: Now here is a riddle to guess if you can, sing the Bells of Notre Dame
Quasimodo: What makes a monster and what makes a man?
Congregation: What makes a monster and what makes a man?
Sing the bells... bells of Notre Dame!
|-|Demo Version=
Clopin: Morning in Paris, the city awakes
To the bells of Notre Dame
The fisherman fishes, the bakerman bakes
To the bells of Notre Dame
And the grand chandelier gets its grandeur
And the shone diode gets its shone
And some say the soul of the city's
The toll of the bells
The bells of Notre Dame
(song stops, speaking segment begins)
Listen, they're beautiful, no?
So many colors of sound, so many changing moods
Because you know, they don't ring all by themselves
Clopin puppet: They don't?
Clopin: No, you silly boy.
Up there, high, high in the dark bell tower lives the mysterious bell ringer.
Who is this creature?
Clopin puppet: Who?
Clopin: What is he?
Clopin puppet: What?
Clopin: How did he come to be there?
Clopin puppet: How?
Clopin: Hush!
Clopin puppet: Ow!
Clopin: And I will tell you.
It is a tale, a tale of a man and a monster.
(song resumes, scene changes to flashback)
Clopin: Dark was the night when our tale was begun
On the docks near Notre Dame
Quasimodo's father: Shut it up, will you!
Man #2: We'll be spotted!
Quasimodo's mother: Hush, little one.
Clopin: Four frightened gypsies slid silently under
The docks near Notre Dame
Barge Driver: Four guilders for price for safe passage into Paris
Clopin: But a trap had been laid for the gypsies
And they gazed up in fear and alarm
At a figure whose clutches
Were iron as much as the bells
The bells of Notre Dame
Chorus: Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)
Clopin: (speaking) Judge Claude Frollo
Chorus: Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)
Clopin: (singing) Judge Claude Frollo longed to purge the world of vice and sin
Chorus: Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)
Clopin: And he saw corruption everywhere, except within
Frollo: (speaking) Take these gypsy vermin to the Palace of Justice.
Guard: Gypsies! Thieving scoundrels! Mind they don't steal the chains as well. (laughs)
Frollo: (laughs) Yes. It is a pity thieves are everywhere nowadays.
Guard: Good man that Judge Frollo. He knows where gypsies belong. On the rack! (laughs)
Wh...? What the?! I've been robbed! You there, what are you hiding? Thieving gypsy!
Clopin: (speaking) She ran.
Chorus: Dies iræ (dies iræ), dies illa (dies illa) (Day of wrath, that day)
Solvet sæclum in favilla (Shall consume the world in ashes)
Teste David cum sibylla (As prophesied by David and the sibyl)
Quantus tremor est futurus (What trembling is to be)
(dies iræ) (Day of wrath)
Quando Judex est venturus (When the Judge is come)
Quasimodo's mother: Sanctuary, please give us sanctuary!
Chorus: Quando tremor est futurus (When the trembling is to be)
(dies iræ) (Day of wrath)
Quando Judex est venturus (When the Judge is come)
(dies iræ) (Day of wrath)
Frollo: A baby? 
Chorus: Solvet sæclum in favilla (Shall consume the world in ashes)
Frollo: A monster!
Chorus: Dies iræ, dies illa (Day of wrath, that day)
Clopin: "Stop!" cried the Archdeacon.
Archdeacon: (speaking) You are a murderer. I have seen your crime.
Frollo: (speaking) I have committed no crime. She ran, I pursued.
Archdeacon: You have killed this poor woman but you now compound
your sin by murdering her child.
Frollo: This is an unholy demon. I am sending it back to Hell, where it belongs.
Archdeacon: (singing) See there the innocent blood you have spilt
On the steps of Notre Dame
See there the stain like the scar of your guilt
On the steps of Notre Dame
You can lie to yourself and your minions
You can claim that you haven't a qualm
But you never can run from nor hide what you've done from the eyes
The very eyes of Notre Dame
Chorus: Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)
Clopin: And for one time in his life
Of power and control
Chorus: Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)
Clopin: Frollo felt a thrill of fear
For his immortal soul
Frollo: (speaking) What must I do?
Archdeacon: (speaking) Care for the child, and raise it as your own
Frollo: What? I am to be saddled with the care of this misshapen…?
Very well. But let him live with you, in your church.
Archdeacon: Live here? Where?
Frollo: Anywhere.
(singing) Just so he's kept locked away where no one else can see
(speaking) The bell tower, perhaps. And who knows? Our Lord works in mysterious ways-
(singing resumes) Even this foul creature may
Yet prove one day to be, of use to me
(scene changes to puppet show)
Clopin: (speaking) And Frollo gave the child a cruel name. A name that means half-formed: Quasimodo.
(singing) Now here is a riddle to guess if you can
Sing the bells of Notre Dame
Who is the monster and who is the man?
Sing the bells of Notre Dame
Sing the big bells as loud as the thunder
Sing the little bells as soft as a psalm (Sing the bells, bells, bells…)
Whatever their pitch you, can feel them bewitch you
The rich and the ritual knells...
Of the bells... bells of Notre Dame!
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== Versions ==
Characters (numbered to fit singers)	Singers (numbered to fit characters) 	Language 	Title 	Title (Translated to English)
1-Clopin2-Frollo3-Archdeacon 	1-ياسر شعبان (Yasser Shaaban)2-سمير البنا (Samir Al-Banna)3-علي حسنين (Ali Hassanein) 	Arabic 	"أجراس نوتردام" 	"The Bells of Notre Dame"
1-Clopin2-Frollo3-Archdeacon 	1-Cláudio Galvan2-Leonardo José (speaking)2-Rodrigo Esteves (singing)3-Lafayette Galvão 	Brazilian Portuguese 	"O Sons de Notre Dame" 	"The Sounds of Notre Dame"
1-Clopin2-Frollo3-Archdeacon 	1-龍天生 (Lóng Tiānshēng)2-盧國雄 (Lú Guóxióng)3-??? 	Cantonese 	??? 	???
1-Clopin2-Frollo3-Archdeacon 	1-Jesús Castejón2-Constantino Romero3-Miguel Ángel Jenner 	Castilian Spanish (EU)	El son de Notre Dame 	The song of Notre Dame
1-Clopin2-Frollo3-Archdeacon 	1-Pep Antón Muñoz2-Constantino Romero3-Joan Crosas 	Catalan 	"Els Sons de Nôtre Dame" 	"The Sounds From Notre Dame"
1-Clopin2-Frollo3-Archdeacon 	??? 	Czech 	??? 	???
1-Clopin2-Frollo3-Archdeacon 	1-Jess Ingerslev2-Stig Hoffmeyer (speaking)2-Niels Weyde (singing)3-Bendt Reiner 	Danish 	??? 	???
1-Clopin2-Frollo3-Archdeacon 	1-Bill van Djik2-Edmond Classen (speaking)2-Ernst Daniël Smid (singing)3-Ger Smit 	Dutch 	"Klokken van de Notre Dame" 	"Bells from the Notre-Dame"
1-Clopin2-Frollo3-Archdeacon 	1-Antti Pääkkönen2-Ossi Ahlapuro3-Matti Siitonen 	Finnish 	"Notre-Damen Kellot" 	"Notre-Dame's Bells"
1-Clopin2-Frollo3-Archdeacon 	1-Peter De Smet2-François Beukelaers (speaking)2-Wemer Brams (singing)3-Bert Andre (speaking)3-Marc Meersman (singing) 	Flemish 	"De Klok van Notre Dame" 	"The Bell from Notre Dame"
1-Clopin2-Frollo3-Archdeacon 	1-Bernard Alane2-Jean Piat3-Dominique Tirmont 	French 	"Les Cloches de Notre-Dame" 	"The Bells of Notre-Dame"
1-Clopin2-Frollo3-Archdeacon 	1-Heinz Rennhack2-Klausjürgen Wussow3-Helmut Krauss 	German 	"Die Glocken Notre Dames" 	???
1-Clopin2-Frollo3-Archdeacon 	1-Κωνσταντίνος Παλιατσάρας (Konstantínos Paliatsáras)2-Δημήτρης Κοντογιάννης (Dimítris Kontogiánnis)3-Τζον Μοδινός (John Modinos) 	Greek 	"Στα Σκαλιά της Παναγιάς" 	"On the steps of Notre-Dame"
1-Clopin2-Frollo3-Archdeacon 	1-מומי לוי (Momy Levy)2-אלי גורנשטיין (Eli Gorenstein)3-??? 	Hebrew 	??? 	???
1-Clopin2-Frollo3-Archdeacon 	1-Maros Gábor2-Heyley László (speaking)2-Szvétek László (singing)3-Szabó Gyula (speaking)3-Sárkány Kázmér (singing) 	Hungarian 	"Zeng a Notre-Dame" 	???
1-Clopin2-Frollo3-Archdeacon 	1-Carlo Ragone2-Eros Pagni3-Franco Chilemmi 	Italian 	"Le Campane di Notre-Dame" 	"The Bells of Notre-Dame"
1-Clopin2-Frollo3-Archdeacon 	1-光枝 明彦 (Akihiko Mitsueda)2-日下 武史 (Takeshi Kusaka) (speaking)2-村 俊英 (Toshihide Mura) (singing)3-村宮 五郎 (Gorō Muramiya) (speaking)3-佐川 守正 (Morimasa Sagawa) (singing) 	Japanese 	「ノートルダムの鐘」 (Nōtoru Damu no Kane) 	"The Bells of Notre Dame"
1-Clopin2-Frollo3-Archdeacon 	1-김재우 (Kim Jae-woo)2-김병관 (Kim Byung-gwan)2-이성훈 (Lee Sung-hoon)3-송용태 (Song Yong-tae) 	Korean 	 	
1-Clopin2-Frollo3-Archdeacon 	1-張明權 (Zhāng Míngquán)2-林棟甫 (Lín Dòngfu) (speaking)2-楊小勇 (Yáng Xiǎoyǒng) (singing)3-金效強 (Jīn Xiàoqiáng) 	Mandarin Chinese 	??? 	???
1-Clopin2-Frollo3-Archdeacon 	1-Julio Sosa2-Fernando Escandón3-José Roberto Reséndiz (speaking)3-Alejandro Villeli (singing) 	Mexican Spanish (LA) 	
Las campanas de Notre Dame 	The bells of Notre Dame
1-Clopin2-Frollo3-Archdeacon 	1-Sigve Bøe2-Even Stormoen (speaking)2-Paul Åge Johannessen (singing)3-Thorbjørn Lindhjem 	Norwegian 	??? 	???
1-Clopin2-Frollo3-Archdeacon 	1-Robert Rozmus2-Krzysztof Gosztyła3-Henryk Machalica (speaking)3-Jerzy Mahler (singing) 	Polish 	??? 	???
1-Clopin2-Frollo3-Archdeacon 	1-André Maia2-Mário Pereira (speaking)José Lopes (singing)3-Jorge Sousa e Costa 	Portuguese 	??? 	???
1-Clopin2-Frollo3-Archdeacon 	1-Алексей Иващенко (Aleksei Ivashchenko)2-Игорь Балалаев (Igor' Balalayev)3-Алексей Колган (Aleksey Kolgan) 	Russian 	«Колокола собора Нотр-Дам» 	"Bells of Notre Dame Cathedral"
1-Clopin2-Frollo3-Archdeacon 	1-Милан Антонић (Milan Antonić)2-Бранислав Платиша (Branislav Platiša)3-Бранислав Платиша (Branislav Platiša) 	Serbian 	??? 	???
1-Clopin2-Frollo3-Archdeacon 	1-Mikael Grahn2-Stefan Ljungqvist3-Håkan Hagegård 	Swedish 	"En sång från Notre Dame" 	"A song from Notre Dame"
==Trivia==
* The song borrows text from the Roman liturgical Requiem Mass setting "Dies Irae."
* When Clopin asks, "Who is the monster, and who is the man?", this would eventually refer to Frollo and Quasimodo respectively. This is echoed in the end when he sang "What makes a monster, and what makes a man?".
* Clopin says that "quasimodo" means "half-formed" (in other languages "deformed"), but in reality it means (in Latin) "almost made" or "more or less".
* Stephen Schwartz and Alan Menken wrote a shorter Christmas version of this musical number for Voctave's 2016 Christmas album "The Spirit of the Season". It was appropriately paired with "Carol of the Bells".
nl:De klokken van de Notre Dame
pt-br:Os Sons de Notre Dame
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