From the musical “The Cocoanuts”, 1926
Words and music by Irving Berlin
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- I’ve composed a happy jingle
For you my dear
And I filled it with conventional rhymes
It will tell you what I’m thinking
So lend an ear to my song of love
And wedding bell chimes
Chorus
Ting-a-ling the bells ‘ll ring
And as they swing, the crowd ‘ll sing
The Queen and King are entering, so Ting-a-ling
Down the aisle that seems a mile
We’ll walk in style and try to smile
Then in a while a domicile and everything
When it’s done and two are one forever
We’ve begun a life that none can sever
Ting-a-ling the bells ‘ll ring
And in the spring the stork may bring
A tiny thing that we can swing to Ting-a-ling
- I adore the happy jingle you wrote for me
And I wish I could remember those rhymes
Maybe I could learn the words and the melody
If I heard it sung a couple of times