London Bridge

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London Bridge

'"London Bridge Is Falling Down" (also known as "My Fair Lady" or "London Bridge") is a traditional English nursery rhyme and singing game, which is found in different versions all over the world. It deals with the depredations of London Bridge and attempts, realistic or fanciful, to repair it. It may date back to bridge rhymes and games of the Late Middle Ages, but the earliest records of the rhyme in English are from the seventeenth century. [...] It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 502 ' — Excerpted from London Bridge Is Falling Down on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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London Bridge in 1616, detail from Panorama of London by Claes Van Visscher.
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