"London Bridge Is Falling Down" (also known as "My Fair Lady" or simply "London Bridge") is a traditional English nursery rhyme and singing game. It deals with the depredations of London Bridge and attempts, realistic or fanciful, to repair it. It may date back to bridge rhymes and games of the late Middle Ages
STAGE ONE
SLOW AND STEADY AND FRUSTRATED
the key to the nursery rhyme. The cost of maintenance was paid for out of tolls, on both people and ships, but sometimes the money went astray. In 1282, during the reign of Henry III, five of the bridge's 19 arches collapsed. About 5 years earlier, Henry had given the revenues from the bridge to his wife, Queen Eleanor, and she had spent it on herself!
STAGE TWO
GETTING THE NOTES AND RHYTHM SLOWLY