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"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 dilapidation of London Bridge and attempts, realistic or fanciful, to repair it.
The nursery rhyme and folk song "London Bridge Is Falling Down" has been speculatively connected to several of the bridge's historic collapses. Rennie's New London Bridge is a prominent landmark in T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land, wherein he compares the shuffling commuters across London Bridge to the hell-bound souls of Dante's Inferno.
The Night the Bridge Fell Down (1983 film): [a] The fictional Madison Bridge, portrayed by the Astoria-Megler Bridge, collapses due to a multi-car accident. Train Man (1999 novel): The destruction of multiple rail bridges over the Mississippi River forms the basis of the novel's plot.
"London Bridge is down." On September 8, 2022, this phrase went out along private channels to convey the news that Queen Elizabeth, the longest-lived and longest-serving monarch in British history ...
The 1993 movie Falling Down has Robert Duvall's character as the detective tracking Michael Douglas through Los Angeles planning to move to Lake Havasu City with his wife after his retirement begins at the end of his last day on the job. The paranormal television series Ghost Adventures covered the story of the London Bridge, in the episode ...
Thus protected, they were able to get close enough to the bridge to attach ropes to the piers and pull the bridge down, defeat the Vikings and end the occupation of London. There is some speculation that the nursery rhyme " London Bridge is Falling Down " stems from this incident.
A spokesperson for London police told BBC News that officers had been called to the area Thursday afternoon for "reports of a person in the water close to Tower Bridge." "The person was spoken to ...
Newtrament is a musician, MC and DJ known for releasing an early UK electro/hip hop record - "London Bridge is Falling Down" - on Jive Records. [1] [2] It was based on the nursery rhyme (previously adapted by the reggae group Culture) with a political message that electoral politics were a sham. [3]