London Bridge is falling down

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Great big gobs of:
greasy grimy gopher guts,
mutiliated monkey meat,
toasted little birdy's feet.

Great big eyeballs
floating in a pool of blood,
And weeee, forgot our spoons.
(Brought our straws!)

 

[OakwoodDM]

I thought London Bridge was in Arizona, and so did they when they bought it

It is. The problem is that they thought they were buying Tower Bridge when they asked for London Bridge. More fool them!

I'm pretty sure I only knew the chorus of the song, although I do have vague recollections about the different materials verses...

 

[Zander]

London Bridge is broken down,
Broken down, broken down,
London Bridge is broken down,
My fair lady...

Build it up with iron and steel,
Iron and steel, iron and steel,
Build it up with iron and steel,
My fair lady.

I was brought up in London and remember it as "London Bridge is falling down" etc followed by the part about iron and steel above.

 

[Dog Moon]

Why was this brought back after 3 years?

Anyway, I don't remember which version I learned cause all I could ever was the London Bridge is falling down part. It's not a song I've felt compelled to sing for YEARS and even if I do not, I couldn't sing anything more than the chorus...

 

[Thunderfoot]

No salt and pepper. (that just seems more than bizarre...)

And as far as the gopher song..

Great big gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts
mutilated monkey meat, chopped up little babies feet
French fried eyeballs swimmin' in a pool of blood
don't ya wish you had a spoon....

and another classic...

Comet, it makes your mouth turn green
Comet, it's tastes like gasoline (Listerine)
Comet, it makes you vomit
so get some Comet, and vomit today....

 

[Michael Morris]

Check this out Thanee

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34KVEthrXZI[/ame]

 

[TemplarSaint]

I'm from NOLA, and the version I learned had you "build it up with sticks and stones" and ended with somthing like "chip, chop, off with her head."

 

[ssampier]

'London bridge is falling down' and that's all I remember.

Which one do you sing?

Big green gobs of greasy grimey gopher guts,
1. Mutilated (2. munched up ) monkey 1. meat (2. feet),
1. Little dirty birdie feet, 2. Chopped up little piggie feet, 3. Chopped up baby parakeet


joe b.

Mutilated monkey meat! Amazing what can trigger our memory.

 

[Jdvn1]

"London Bridge *is*..." isn't it?

Yeah. "Bridges" strikes me as weird.

 

[Misty Wyrick]

Me and my daughter were just talking about this. That's what actually led me here.
We couldn't remember the next verse so I googled it and when I played it we both
looked at each other like HUH!!! because the way we learned it was:

"Shake them up with salt and pepper, salt and pepper, salt and pepper. "
" Shake them up with salt and pepper, my fair lady. "

Anyways, I just had to comment on this when I seen it because I thought it was
weird I couldn't find our version of it. Maybe it's just a Kansas City / Missouri thing.. You know how we do..!! LOL
(yes tha'ts where we are from as well.. <3 )