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My Ding-A-Ling Lyrics
When I was a little bitty boy
My grandmother bought me a cute little toy
Silver bells hangin' on a string
She told me it was my ding-a-ling
My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling
I want to play with my ding-a-ling
My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling
I want to play with my ding-a-ling
And then mother took me to Grammar School
But I stopped all in the vestibule
Every time that bell would ring
Catched me playin' with my ding-a-ling
Once I was climbing the garden wall
I slipped and had a terrible fall
I fell so hard I heard bells ring
but held on to my ding-a-ling
Once I was swimming cross Turtle creek
Many snappers all around my feet
Sure was hard swimming 'cross that thing
With both hands holdin' my ding-a-ling
This here song it ain't so sad
The cutest little song you ever had
Those of you who will not sing
You must be playin' with your own ding-a-ling
My ding-a-ling
My grandmother bought me a cute little toy
Silver bells hangin' on a string
She told me it was my ding-a-ling
I want to play with my ding-a-ling
My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling
I want to play with my ding-a-ling
But I stopped all in the vestibule
Every time that bell would ring
Catched me playin' with my ding-a-ling
I slipped and had a terrible fall
I fell so hard I heard bells ring
but held on to my ding-a-ling
Many snappers all around my feet
Sure was hard swimming 'cross that thing
With both hands holdin' my ding-a-ling
The cutest little song you ever had
Those of you who will not sing
You must be playin' with your own ding-a-ling
My ding-a-ling
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This is Chuck's rewrite of The Bee's Toy Bell from the mid-50s which was itself based on an older Dave Bartholomew number.
this song STILL cracks me up.
it's all a very clever double entante.
"Ding-A-Ling", ha ha. ;)
Actually, it's a rather transparent double-entendre.
Aww, such wit.
Great song from a great musicien.
Much as I love Chuck Berry and this song, I have to agree with DJacques on this. It's not particularly clever or witty. A fun song, but there's no lyrical genius begind it.
Yeah I was being sarcastic (in case you didnt know)
I remember first hearing this song in a car when I was younger, and laughing to myself because I thought the double-entendre was competely unintentional.
Now I'm pretty sure it wasn't. FUnny stuff.
This song is a classic, I remember orginally hearing a small boy singing it on the Simpsons one episode. I almost died off laughter, of course then with the small amount of lyrics provided you could not decifer the double meaning.
I then heard the full song later and It still cracked me up, My favourite verse has too be
"Once while swimming cross turtle creek Man them snappers right at my feet Sure was hard swimming cross that thing with both hands holding my dingaling..."
Chuck Berry at his best I must say, one of the funniest song I have ever heard!
My favorite part is at the end
"Those of you who will not sing must be playing with your own ding-a-ling
Chuck Berry was of the fathers of rock and roll, with no particular place to go, roll over beethoven, memphis tennessee etc. This is just sell out schmaltz, its selling point being every verse has the same lame double entendre about masturbating. It demonstrates well that the pop charts have always been populated with crap, as this was his only number 1.