Volume I Part 80 (1/2)

Stamp your foot and let her go!

-Clun (Burne's _Shrops.h.i.+re 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.

Build it up with mortar and bricks, Mortar and bricks, mortar and bricks, Build it up with mortar and bricks, My fair lady.

[Then follow verses in the same style and with the same refrain, beginning with-]

Bring some water, we'll wash it away.

Build it up with silver and gold.

Silver and gold will be stolen away.

We'll set a man to watch at night.

Suppose the man should fall asleep?

Give him a pipe of tobacco to smoke.