My ding-a-ling lyrics

Factual Questions
1

OK, I know searching for lyrics on the internet is usually a simple endeavor, but I’ve had small luck in finding the proper lyrics for Chuck Berry’s “My Ding-a-ling”. Maybe the studio version is different, but I’m looking for the lyrics to the live version that he sang in England – remember the reference to “all those future members of Parliament”? Those lyrics should include a mention of grammar school, the garden wall, and Turtle Creek.

If you can provide the spoken part, too, it would be much appreciated; and if you know the chord schema, please throw that in, too.

2

I searched with google for “my ding-a-ling” “turtle creek” “parliament” and got no hits. But leaving off “parliament” I found this site: http://www.multimania.com/rockbox/ding_a_ling.htm

It has chords and the spoken part:

3

This is completely from my memory as a 10 year old.

When I was, a little-bitty boy
My Grandmother bought me a cute little toy
Silver bells hanging on a string
She told me it was my ding-a-ling-a-ling

When I was going to grammar school
I got dropped off in the vestibule
Everytime that bell would ring
Catch me playin’ with my ding-a-ling-a-ling

Once I was climbing the garden wall
Slipped and had a terrible fall
Fell so hard I heard bells ring
But I held on to my ding-a-ling-a-ling

Once I was swimming cross turtle creek
Man, them snappers all around my feet
Sure was hard trying to cross that thing
With both hands holding my ding-a-ling-a-ling

This here song it ain’t so bad
Cutest little song you ever had
Those of you who will not sing
Must be playing with your own ding-a-ling-a-ling

There are of course choruses between each verse:
Chorus:
My ding-a-ling-a-ling
My ding-a-ling-a-ling
I want you to play with my ding-a-ling-a-ling
etc

I also have some recollection of the spoken parts, but nothing solid…

“These girls over here are singing “my”! That’s ok, girl”
“There’s some people over there singing in harmony…”
Diver

4

Well, I figured someone would post a link, I just wanted to prove to myself I could remember those lyrics.

5

Thanks, Johnny. That’s the best I’ve seen so far. One source I’d found earler (through Jeeves) had interpreted “vestibule” as “best of you”, but this version is what I remember (except they left out the spoken part about those future members of Parliament).

6

You know the sad part of this? For all his pioneering work in rock-n-roll, being one of the founders of what rock guitar should sound like, and writing some great songs, this was his only #1 hit.