Public-domain song
London Bridge Is Falling Down
- Key signature
- No sharps or flats
- Time signature
- 4/4
- Origin
- An English nursery rhyme; the tune appears in Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song Book (1744).
Public domain: a traditional tune, first published in 1744.
Written out here note by note as a melody only: no lyrics and no accompaniment.
The two parts
Part 1
The phrase people know, short enough to learn in a sitting.
- Length
- 3 bars, 11 notes
- Tempo
- ♩ = 90
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Range
- C4 to A4
- Note values
- whole notes, quarter notes, eighth notes
Part 2: the complete song
The whole tune: its melody once through to its end, without the repeats a performance would add.
- Length
- 6 bars, 24 notes
- Tempo
- ♩ = 104
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Range
- C4 to A4
- Note values
- whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes
Earn a star on the first part to open the complete song.
Lessons that use this song
Each of these lessons opens the first part.