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33% LONDON BRIDGE
O, what has my poor prisoner done ?
Robbed a house and killed a man.
What will you have to set her free ?
Fourteen pounds and a wedding gown.
Stamp your foot and let her go !
—Clun (Burne's Shropshire Folk-lore, pp. 518-19).
VI. London Bridge is broken down, Broken down, broken down, London Bridge is broken down, My fair lady.
Build it up with iron bars, Iron bars, iron bars, Build it up with iron bars, My fair lady.
[Then follow verses with the same refrain, beginning with—]
Build it up with pins and needles.
Pins and needles rust and bend.
Build it up with penny loaves.
Penny loaves will tumble down.
Here's a prisoner I have got.
What's the prisoner done to you ?
Stole my watch and broke my chain.
What will you take to let him out ?
Ten hundred pounds will let him out.
Ten hundred pounds we have not got.
Then off to prison he must go.
—Kent (Miss Dora Kimball).
VII. London Bridge is falling down, Falling down, falling down, London Bridge is falling down, My fair lady. |
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