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, audiences back in the early days when Joni was playing the smaller, more intimate venues she has always enjoyed most.

(Spoken are in italics)

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

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

London Bridge is up for
Booze put my friend in jail
Spent my money on bail
My lady-o
(Sure like to have bought that bridge)
(Couldn't let him go to jail)

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

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

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

(They always, do you know those fridges are terrible, they're 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 "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 on London Bridge
Mutton rotting in my
dow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow

(A little electronic music there for pleasure)
down on London Bridge
My lady-o