Robbed a house and killed a man.
What will you have to set her free?
Fourteen pounds and a wedding gown.
Stamp your foot and let her go!
—Clun (Burne’s Shropshire Folk-lore, pp. 518-19).
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.