old song - help needed

[Sad Eyed Lady]

I've racked my brain, searched the web, and now I am turning to you. When I was a very small child in the 1950's my aunt used to sing a song to me that I believe was called "Silver Bells", or at least that was a refrain in the song. It is NOT the Christmas Silver Bells. As I recall it had almost a Spanish or Tex-Mex sound and I would so dearly love finding this once again. If you have any idea at all, please share with me. :help:

[JaneV2.0]

I vaguely remember this one, but it doesn't have a "silver bells" chorus:
http://www.metrolyrics.com/serenade-of-the-bells-lyrics-jo-stafford.html

[morris_rl]

I've racked my brain, searched the web, and now I am turning to you. When I was a very small child in the 1950's my aunt used to sing a song to me that I believe was called "Silver Bells", or at least that was a refrain in the song. It is NOT the Christmas Silver Bells. As I recall it had almost a Spanish or Tex-Mex sound and I would so dearly love finding this once again. If you have any idea at all, please share with me. :help:

There was the 1952 song by Chuck Berry entitled "My Ding-a-Ling" that has the phrase you mention, or very similar in the first verse, but not in the chorus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D2PwYVLiR8

Lyrics:

http://www.chuckberry.com/music/lyrics/dingaling.htm

My Ding A Ling

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 Grammer 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
Shure 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


Best,


Rodger

[morris_rl]

I've racked my brain, searched the web, and now I am turning to you. When I was a very small child in the 1950's my aunt used to sing a song to me that I believe was called "Silver Bells", or at least that was a refrain in the song. It is NOT the Christmas Silver Bells. As I recall it had almost a Spanish or Tex-Mex sound and I would so dearly love finding this once again. If you have any idea at all, please share with me. :help:

Another possibility is the traditional song "Silver Bell":

http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/folk-song-lyrics/Silver_Bell.htm

Here is an old recording of this I found on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsfCzlbKZyQ


Silver Bell

Beneath the light of a bright starry night
Sat a lonely little Indian maid.
"No lover's sweet serenade, has ever won me."
As in a dream, it would seem, down a stream,
Gaily paddling his tiny canoe,
A chieftain longing to woo, sang her this song:

CHO: "Your voice is ringing, my Silver Bell.
Under its spell, I've come to tell
You of the love I am bringing, o'er hill and dell.
Happy will dwell my Silver Bell."

For many moons, many tunes, many spoons
Woke the echo of the silver night.
As down the stream gleaming bright they float a-dreaming.
In his canoe, only two sat to woo
As they listened to the sigh of the breeze
That seemed to sing to the trees this sweet refrain:


Best,


Rodger