From The Mixer and Server, Volume 20 (Cincinnati, Ohio: Hotel and Restaurant Employes' International Alliance, 1911), page 60:


A Ding-a-ling Hymn.

In London, the Salvation Army lassies and other street-praying bands are singing a song that has become universally popular in the crowded sections of the city. Here is one verse of it:

The bells of hell go ding-aling-ling
For you, but not for me;
The sweet-voiced angels sing-a-ling-ling
Through all eternity.
Oh, death, where is thy sting-a-ling-ling;
Oh, grave, thy victory!
No ding-a-ling-ling, no sting-a-ling-ling.
But sing-a-ling-ling for me.

—New York Press.