Ching a Ring Chaw
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Ching a Ring Chaw is a song from the early days of the Minstrel
tradition included by Aaron Copland
in his Old American Songs
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As might be expected the precise lyrics vary, but they are generally approximately as follows:
Minstrel show
The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American entertainment consisting of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music, performed by white people in blackface or, especially after the Civil War, black people in blackface....
tradition included by Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...
in his Old American Songs
Old American Songs
Old American Songs are two sets of songs arranged by Aaron Copland in 1950 and 1952 respectively. Originally scored for voice and piano, they were reworked for baritone and orchestra....
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As might be expected the precise lyrics vary, but they are generally approximately as follows:
- Ching-a-ring-a ring ching ching,
- Ho a ding-a-ding kum larkee,
- Ching-a-ring-a ring ching ching,
- Ho a ding kum larkee.
- Brothers gather round,
- Listen to this story,
- 'Bout the promised land,
- An' the promised glory.
- You don't need to fear,
- If you have no money,
- You don't need none there,
- To buy you milk and honey.
- There you'll ride in style,
- Coach with four white horses,
- There the evenin' meal,
- Has one two three four courses.
- Nights we all will dance
- To the harp and fiddle,
- Waltz and jig and prance,
- "And Cast off down the middle!"
- When the mornin' come,
- All in grand and splendour,
- Stand out in the sun,
- And hear the holy thunder!
- Brothers hear me out,
- The promised land's a-comin'
- Dance and sing and shout,
- I hear them harps a strummin'.
- Ching-a-ring-a ching
- ching ching, ching a ring ching
- Ching-a-ring-a ching ching,
- ching-a-ring-a ching ching,
- ching-a-ring-a,
- ching-a-ring-a,
- ching-a-ring-a,
- ring, ching ching ching CHAW!