The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 1 of 2) / With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes and Methods of Playing etc.

by Alice Bertha Gomme

Carry my Lady to London

I.

Give me a pin to stick in my thumb
To carry my lady to London.
Give me another to stick in my other
To carry her a little bit farther.

—Belfast (W. H. Patterson).

II.

London Bridge is broken,
And what shall I do for a token?
Give me a pin to stick in my thumb
And carry my lady to London.

—Notes and Queries, 4th series, xii. 479.

III.

Give me a pin to stick in my chin (? cushion)
To carry a lady to London;
London Bridge is broken down
And I must let my lady down.

—Northall’s English Folk Rhymes, p. 353.