# Ding Dong Bell

"ding dong bell" or "Ding Dong Dell" is a popular English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 12853. == Lyrics == The most common modern version is: == Origins == The earliest recorded reference to the rhyme is from John Lant, the organist of Winchester Cathedral in 1580, who recorded the following rhyme: It was printed in Thomas Ravenscroft's Pammelia, Musicks Miscellanie in 1609, as a canon for four voices.The phrase 'Ding, dong, bell' also appears in these passages of Shakespeare's plays: The Tempest, Act I, Scene II: The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene II: The earliest version to resemble the modern one is from Mother Goose's Melody published in London around 1765.