Origins: Spanish Guitar (Ring Ching Ching)

Subject: Origins: Spanish Guitar (Ring Ching Ching)
From: Jack Horntip
Date: 22 Apr 25 - 08:25 PM

This thread is for posting variants to the song Spanish Guitar
(Ring Ching Ching). A version of the song is still sung by the
Pi Beta Phi -- a fraternity for women.

Do you sing a version of this song?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

SPANISH GUITAR

When I was a student at Cadiz,
I played on the Spanish guitar, ching, ching!
I used to make love to the ladies,
I think of them still from afar, ching, ching!

cho: Ring, ching, ching, Ring, ching ching, Ring out ye bells
Oh ring out ye bells, Oh ring out ye bells!
Ring ching ching, Ring ching ching, ring out ye bells,
As I play on my Spanish guitar. Ching, ching!

I was four years a student at Cadiz
Where nothing one's pleasure can mar. ching ching!
And where many a beautiful maid is,
Oh, I strummed and I twanged my guitar. Ching, ching!

Chorus

OH, I sang serenades there at Cadiz,
'Til I got an attack of catarrh, ching, ching!
Tho no more I could serenadize,
Still I played on my Spanish guitar. ching ching!

Chorus

When at last the train bore me from Cadiz,
The ladies all wept round the car. Ching, ching!
Oh it grieved me to part from those ladies,
But I carried away my guitar. Ching, ching!

Chorus

Note: One of those college songs from the time when there were
college songs.RG
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Here is the version from the digital tradition.


See here: https://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=5502

Subject: RE: Origins: Spanish Guitar (Ring Ching Ching)
From: Jack Horntip
Date: 22 Apr 25 - 08:50 PM

Ring, Ching, Ching

[When I was] a student at college,
I belonged to the Pi Beta Phi. Ring Ching!
I wore the gold arrow so shining,
The symbol of sisterhood ties. Ring Ching!

Chorus
Ring ching ching, ring ching ching
Pi Beta Phi, Pi Beta Phi, Pi Beta Phi,
Ring ching ching! Ring ching ching!
Pi Beta Phi – I belong to the Pi Beta Phi. Ring Ching!

No longer a student at college,
I still love the name of Pi Phi. Ring Ching!
I still wear the arrow so shining,
It brings back fond memories to me. Ring Ching!

Chorus

Posted to facebook by Pi Beta Phi on January 24, 2020
The being of the song is clipped.

Performative note the when person sings "ring" you use
the tableware to hit the table at the "ching ching"
you hit your glass twice so that it "chinks" twice.


See here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=549993682393967

Subject: RE: Origins: Spanish Guitar (Ring Ching Ching)
From: Jack Horntip
Date: 22 Apr 25 - 08:58 PM

CHING CHING A-LING

When I was a student at Casey,
I played on my Spanish guitar,
It was there that I met a young lady,
And soon I became popular.

Ching Ching a-Ling, Ching Ching A-Ling Fa-la-la-lee.
Sweet were the words that she sang unto me,
Ching Ching a-ling, Ching Ching-A-Ling Fa-la-la-lee. |
I played on my Spanish guitar.

1930s. Forester's Songbook [undated (1930s)]
Internal references to the CCC and Iowa State University.


See here: https://archive.org/details/1930s-foresters-songbook-ccc-and-iowa-state-university

Subject: RE: Origins: Spanish Guitar (Ring Ching Ching)
From: Jack Horntip
Date: 24 Apr 25 - 06:55 PM

Ring-a-ling

Chorus
Ring-aling-a-ling-a-ling
Was so fond of me,
Sweet was the bull shit
She handed to me.
Ring-a-ling-aling-a-ling
Was so fond of me,
That she played on my Spanish guitar.

Her father was known as a murderer,
Her mother was known as a witch.
But Ring-a-ling as knon
'Round the whorehouse,
As a red-headed sonofabitch.

Chorus

She took me into her burdoirio
And laid me upon her so fairio,
She took out my cock-a-doodle-dorio,
And stuck it into her cunterio.

Chorus.

1945. Song Book of the Wild Hares


See here: https://archive.org/details/1945songbookofthewildhares/page/n59/mode/2up?q=Spanish


Chorus perhaps derived from "Spanish Guitar" verses partially
derived from the Gay Caballero.