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LONDON BRIDGE SONG, THE
Joni Mitchell

Joni's lighthearted take on London Bridge was a crowd pleaser in her mid-sixties club show, before she signed her first recording contract. This transcription includes spoken patter that, combined with her music, enchanted audiences back in the early days when Joni was playing the smaller, more intimate venues she has always enjoyed most.

(Spoken words are in italics)

London Bridge is falling down

See the people in my town

They're the ones who bring it down

(It's true they've been for centuries,

walking by it and saying, you know,

London Bridge really is falling down, poor thing,

it just fell down in shame)

My fair lady-o

London Bridge is falling up

Save the tea leaves in my cup

Guess the cup is cracking up

My fair lady-o

(I'll have to get a Pyrex one)

London Bridge is up for sale

Booze heads put my friend in jail

Spent my bridge money on bail

My fair lady-o

(Sure would've like to have bought that bridge)

(Couldn't let him go to jail)

If the bridge belonged to me

I would serve you tarts and tea

Smiles, that's all the tolls would be

(Don't grant you people would be getting across at all)

My fair lady-o

On the bridge there stands a car

Painted with peculiar flowers

It's the Beatles' it's not ours

(Guess they're looking at the bridge)

(Hope they buy it)

My fair lady-o

London Bridge is falling down

(Something like that)

London Bridge is coming down

Coming down on London Bridge

Ice cubes melting in my fridge

(They always, do you know those fridges are terrible, they're always melting things and ice cubes are dripping all over the floor)

(And the vegetables are all rotten and your friend turns to you in her very British way and she says: You know I paid two bob for this. It smells a bit peculiar doesn't it, but don't you think... well, we can serve it anyway and she does)

Coming down on London Bridge

Mutton rotting in my fridge

Coming dow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow

Coming-ming-ming-ming-ming-ming

(A little electronic music there for your pleasure)

Coming down on London Bridge

My fair lady-o


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Lyrics by Joni Mitchell

  (BORN TO) TAKE THE HIGHWAY   (YOU'RE SO SQUARE) BABY I DON'T CARE   (You're so Square) Baby, I Don't Care   A BIRD THAT WHISTLES   A Case of You   A CHAIR IN THE SKY   A MELODY IN YOUR NAME   A Strange Boy   All I Want   Amelia   ANSWER ME, MY LOVE   AT LAST   Baby I Don't Care   Bad Dreams   BALLERINA VALERIE   Banquet   Banquet [Multimedia Track]   Barangrill   BE COOL   Beautiful   Big Yello Taxi   Big Yellow Taxi   Big Yellow Taxi (2007)   Big Yellow Taxi (Double Espresso Nrg Mix)   Big Yellow Taxi (Radio Mix)   Big Yellow Taxi (Traffic Jam Mix)   Big Yellow Taxi [DVD]   Big Yellow Taxi [Friends Album Version]   Big Yellow Taxi [Original a Cappella With Guitar]   Big Yellow Taxi [Tribal Dub][Mix]   Black Crow   Blonde In The Bleachers   Blue   BLUE BOY   Blue Motel Room   BLUE ON BLUE   BORDERLINE   Both Sides   Both Sides Now   Both Sides Now [Orchestral Version, 2002]   Both Sides Now [Orchestral Version]   Both Sides, Now   Both Sides, Now [Version]   BRANDY EYES   Cactus Tree   California   CAR ON A HILL   CARA'S CASTLE   Carey   CARNIVAL IN KENORA   Chelsea Morning   CHEROKEE LOUISE   Chinese Café/Unchained Melody   Chinese Cafe   CHINESE CAFE/UNCHAINED MELODY   CHINESE CAFE\/UNCHAINED MELODY   Circle Game   Cold Blue Steel & Sweet Fire   Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire   Come in from The Cold   COME TO THE SUNSHINE   COMES LOVE   Conversation   COOL WATER   Cool Water (feat. Willie Nelson)   COTTON AVENUE   Court & Spark   COURT AND SPARK   Coyote   DAISY SUMMER PIPER   DANCIN' CLOWN   Dawntreader   DAY AFTER DAY   DOCTOR JUNK   DOG EAT DOG   DON JUAN'S RECKLESS DAUGHTER   DON'T GO TO STRANGERS   Don't Interrupt The Sorrow   DON'T WORRY 'BOUT ME   Dont Leave   Down to You   DREAMLAND   Dry Cleaner From Des Moines   EASTERN RAIN   Edith & The Kingpin   EDITH AND THE KINGPIN   Electricity   ETHIOPIA   FACE LIFT   FICTION   FOR FREE   For The Roses   For The Roses [Orchestra Version]   Free Man in Paris   Furry Sings The Blues   GEMINI TWIN   Gift of the Magi   GO TELL THE DRUMMER MAN   GOD MUST BE A BOOGIE MAN   God Must Be a Boogie Man [Multimedia Track]   GOOD FRIENDS   Goodbye Blue Sky   Goodbye Pork Pie Hat   Goodbye Porkpie Hat   Hana   HARLEM IN HAVANA   Harry's House - Centerpiece   HARRY'S HOUSE-CENTERPIECE   Harry's House/Centerpiece   Hejira   Help Me   HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW   How Do You Stop   HOW DO YOU STOP?   Hunter   I DON'T KNOW WHERE I STAND   I HAD A KING   I THINK I UNDERSTAND   I WISH I WERE IN LOVE AGAIN   I WON'T CRY   If   If I Could   If I Had A Heart   If I Had a Heart [DVD]   IMPOSSIBLE DREAMER   In France They Kiss on Main Street   JEREMY   Jericho   Judgement Of The Moon & Stars   Judgement of The Moon & Stars   Judgement of the Moon and Stars   Judgement Of The Moon And Stars (Ludwig's Tune)   JUST LIKE ME   Just Like Me (Unreleased)   JUST LIKE THIS TRAIN   Ladies of The Canyon   Ladies' Man   LAKOTA   LAST CHANCE LOST   Lead Balloon   Lesson In Survival   Let The Wind Carry Me   Little David   Little Green   London Bridge   London Bridge Song   Love   LOVE (CORINTHIANS II:13)   LOVE IS LIKE A BIG BRASS BAND   Love or Money   LOVE PUTS ON A NEW FACE   LUCKY GIRL   Magdalene Laundries   Magic   MAN FROM MARS   MAN TO MAN   Marcie   Michael from Mountains   Midnight Cowboy Song   MIDNIGHT COWBOY SONG, THE   MIDSUMMER MORNING   MISTER BLUE   MOON AT THE WINDOW   MOON IN THE MIRROR   Morning Morgantown   My Best to You   My Old Man   My Secret Place   Nathan La Franeer   Night in The City   Night Of The Iguana   Night Ride Home   NO APOLOGIES   NOT TO BLAME   NOTHING CAN BE DONE   NUMBER ONE   Off Night Back Street   OFF NIGHT BACKSTREET   One Tin Soldier   One Tin Soldier Rides Away   One Week Last Summer   Otis & Marlena   Otis & Marlena   OTIS AND MARLENA   Overture   Overture - Cotton Avenue   Overture-Cotton Avenue   PAPRIKA PLAINS   Passion Play   Passion Play (The Story of Jesus and Zachius... th...   PASSION PLAY (WHEN ALL THE SLAVES ARE FREE)   Pat's Solo   PEOPLE'S PARTIES   POOR SAD BABY   Rainy Night House   Raised on Robbery   Raised On Robbery [Multimedia Track]   RAY'S DAD'S CADILLAC   Real Good for Free   Refuge Of The Roads   Refuge of the Roads [Multimedia Track]   Refugee of the Road   River   ROSES BLUE   Same Situation   See You Sometime   Sex Kills   Sex Kills [DVD]   SHADES OF SCARLET CONQUERING   Shades of Scarlett Conquering   Shadows & Light   SHADOWS AND LIGHT   Shine   SHINY TOYS   SISOTOWBELL LANE   SLOUCHING TOWARD BETHLEHEM   Slouching Towards Bethlehem   Slouching Towards Bethlehem [Based on a Poem by W....   Smokin'   SMOKIN' (EMPTY, TRY ANOTHER)   Snakes & Ladders   SNAKES AND LADDERS   SOLID LOVE   Solid Love [Multimedia Track]   Someday Soon   SOMETIMES I'M HAPPY   Song for Sharon   Song to a Seagull   Songs to Aging Children Come   Stay in Touch   STORMY WEATHER   Strange Boy   Straw - Flower Me   STRAW-FLOWER ME   Strong And Wrong   SUNNY SUNDAY   SWEET BIRD   SWEET SUCKER DANCE   TALK TO ME   TAMING THE TIGER   Taming the Tiger   TAX FREE   Tax-Free   Tea Leaf Prophecy   That Song About The Midway   THE ARRANGEMENT   THE BEAT OF BLACK WINGS   The Beat of Black Wings [DVD]   THE BOHO DANCE   THE CIRCLE GAME   The Crazy Cries of Love   The Crazy Cries of Love   The Dawntreader   The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines   The Fiddle & The Drum   THE FIDDLE AND THE DRUM   THE GALLERY   THE GIFT OF THE MAGI   THE HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS   The Jungle Line   The Last Time I Saw Richard   The Magdalene Laundries   The Magdelene Laundries   THE ONLY JOY IN TOWN   THE PIRATE OF PENANCE   The Pirate of Penzance   THE PRIEST   THE REOCCURING DREAM   The Reoccurring Dream   THE SAME SITUATION   THE SILKY VEILS OF ARDOR   The Sire of Sorrow   THE SIRE OF SORROW (JOB'S SAD SONG)   The Tea Leaf Prophecy   THE TEA LEAF PROPHECY (LAY DOWN YOUR ARMS)   THE TENTH WORLD   THE THREE GREAT STIMULANTS   THE WAY IT IS   The Windfall   THE WINDFALL (EVERYTHING FOR NOTHING)   THE WOLF THAT LIVES IN LINDSEY   This Flight Tonight   This Place   Tiger Bones   TIN ANGEL   Trouble Child   TURBULENT INDIGO   Twisted   Two Grey Rooms   UNDERNEATH THE STREETLIGHT   Underneath the Streetlight [Multimedia Track]   Urge For Going   WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND   Why Do Fools Fall in Love   Why Do Fools Fall In Love (Live)   WHY DO FOOLS FALL IN LOVE?   Why Do Fools Fall in Love? 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