Chords for Chuck Berry - My Ding-A-Ling - R&B - 45 rpm

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] We got to do our alma mater, we [Eb] must do our alma mater.
When I [Ab] was a little bitty boy, [Bb] my grandmother [Eb] bought me a cute little toy.
_ Silver [Ab] bells hanging on a string, [Bb] she told me it [Eb] was my ding-a-ling-a-ling-o.
Ding-a-ling, [Ab] _ ding-a [Bb]-ling, _ _ _ [Eb] _ ding-a-ling, ding-a-ling, [Ab] ding-a-ling, ding-a-ling, [Eb] _ ding-a-ling, _ ding-a-ling.
[Cm]
Beautiful, [Eb] beautiful.
_ _ _ And then Mama [Ab] took me to grammar school, [Eb] but I stopped off in the Vesta Butte. _
_ Every time that [Ab] bell would [Bb] ring, catch me playing [Eb] with my ding-a-ling-a-ling-o.
_ Ding-a-ling, [Ab] _ ding-a-ling, [Bb] _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ ding-a-ling, _ ding-a-ling, ding [Ab] _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ [Eb] [G]-a-ling, ding-a-ling.
[Bb] Oh, that is beautiful.
_ [D] You know what I heard?
[Bb] I heard, I hear two girls over here singing [Gm] in harmony.
That's all right, honey.
This is a free country.
Live [Eb] like you want to live, baby.
Yeah.
Ain't nobody gonna knock it, darling.
Mm-mm.
Yeah, freedom.
[Bbm] _ Yes, sir.
There's one guy right over here singing mine, too.
That's all right, brother.
Yes, sir.
You got it right, baby.
Ain't nobody gonna bother you.
_ Once _ _ I was [F] climbing the garden wall, I slipped and had [Eb] a terrible fall.
I fell so hard [Ab] I heard bells ring, [Bb] but held on to [Eb] my ding-a-ling-a-ling-o. _
_ _ _ [Ab] _ Ding-a-ling, [Bb] _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ ding-a-ling, _
[D] _ _ _ [Ab] _ ding-a-ling, [Bb] _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ ding [Ab]-a-ling, ding-a-ling.
Mm, [A] you know that's future [Eb] parliament out there singing? _ _ _
_ Oh, yeah. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Mm, once I was swimming [Ab] across Turtle [G] Creek.
Man, them snappers [Eb] all around my feet. _
Sure was [Ab] hard swimming across that thing with both [Bb] hands holding [Eb] my feet.
_ Yeah.
Ding-a-ling, [Ab] _ ding-a-ling, [Bb]
ding _ _ [Eb] _ _ -a-ling, ding-a _ _ [Dbm] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ [Eb]-ling.
That's so beautiful.
I think it's a beautiful little song.
Really, I do.
And guess what?
Everybody's still not singing.
There's a few right down front here that's not singing.
We're gonna dedicate this verse to those who will not sing.
Yes, sir.
Mm, this here song, [Ab] it ain't so sad.
[Bb] The cutest little song [Eb] you ever had. _
Those of you [Ab] who will not sing, [F] you must be [Eb] playing with your own ding-a-ling. _
Ding-a [Ab]-ling, ding-a-ling, ding-a [Bb]-ling.
Oh, _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
ding-a-ling, [Abm] yo, ding [F]-a-ling.
We saw you playing [Eb] with your _ own ding-a-ling.
[Ab] _ Everybody sing.
[F]
I want to play [Eb] with my ding-a-ling.
Everybody, my, _ [Ab] oh, my.
Ding-a-ling.
[Bb] Slow down.
I _ wanna play, everybody, with my _ ding-a [Eb]-ling. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _