Luyện nghe bài hát LONDON BRIDGE SONG, THE

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 enjoyed most.

(Spoken are in italics)

Bridge is falling down
See the people in my
They're the ones who bring it
(It's they've been for centuries,
by it and saying, you know,
London Bridge really is down, poor thing,
it fell down in shame)
My lady-o

London is falling up
Save the tea in my cup
Guess the cup is up
My fair
(I'll to get a Pyrex one)

London is up for sale
Booze put my friend in jail
Spent my bridge on bail
My fair
(Sure would've like to have that bridge)
(Couldn't let him go to jail)

If the bridge to me
I serve you tarts and tea
Smiles, that's all the tolls be
(Don't grant you people would be getting at all)
My lady-o

On the there stands a car
with peculiar flowers
It's the Beatles' it's not
(Guess they're at the bridge)
(Hope buy it)
My lady-o

Bridge is falling down
(Something that)
London is coming down
Coming down on London
Ice cubes melting in my

(They always, do you know those fridges are terrible, they're always melting things and ice are dripping all over the floor)
(And the vegetables are all rotten and your friend turns to you in her very 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)

down on London Bridge
Mutton in my fridge
dow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow

(A little electronic music for your pleasure)
down on London Bridge
My fair