SONG OF LONDON

[Music] [Music] [Applause] so [Music] [Applause] Thunder is the whole world city London has a store of treasure [Music] big time [Music] Oh God [Music] we play we paid a welcome weights in London for the whole wide world when the world and his wife want to go to town they join the class [Music] the [Applause] Londyn thou at the flower of cities or gem of all joy jasper of jack under t the flower of cities all it spreads itself at the feet of a new arrival the web of bricks and mortar that Londoners have built this has been density foreclosed on 2,000 years now their numbers have grown with it and now they swarm in Trafalgar Square like the pigeons with the National Gallery behind them to remind them of the arts and the statue of Nelson to recall heroic deeds wherever in the world they go in their cockney hearts home is always London I have traveled this wide I have seen what the world and now I come back to the city I know the place where I was used to live and now I've returned as far as I know that I can do without love and get along very well I know more Piccadilly you can have my share and died of dodging pigeons in Trafalgar Square how I can do without London do without another kidding cause I love them and I mighty happy to me although I'm always kidding and I shoot alive you've only got to listen to this voice to mine to know that I'm a part of no London is [Music] [Applause] whether it's watching the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace or swirling round with the big red buses in Piccadilly Circus the streets of London are full of people this is one of the world's crossroads and someone's sure to tell you that if you stand here long enough you'll see everyone you've ever known recognize any old friends [Music] there always seemed to be people gathered about Picard in its famous landmark the statue of eros the God of love you're looking at one of the oldest pieces of London still standing for the foundations of this the old city war were built by the Romans beyond is the new London the towering blocks for the city's business houses old and new faring the changes like the bells of the old song but hold on you they're all part of London [Music] you owe me five farthings say the bells of Saint body [Music] [Applause] st. Paul's Cathedral Christopher Wren's masterpiece its dome still soaring above the surrounding rooftops [Music] a place to live that anyone might be proud of where London's County Council is making a new London of the future [Music] Westminster Abbey where the kings and queens of England have been crowned for 900 years you Scotland Yard still whispers of the world's first police force and the mistress of the CID the Criminal Investigation Department old father Thames and the Tower of London once a Roman fortress Royal Castle prison storehouse of the crown jewels no other place in London can show you so much history within its walls [Music] [Applause] [Music] a fine sunny morning and what to do the answer might be to go out and look for something you've always wanted a hat a house a piece of Georgian silver a browse around a department store the only problem is that of choice or perhaps how to get the things home I was a walking down the time a walk in in the West End looking for the best import again appoint a PR wing I stopped did he come into me eight today's the day the wife and I be married for two years I could see her singing they're saying it was rotten the finger died forgot our anniversary scene died better to look around the dinner something extra special that she liked to that from me first I bought a dozen left the monkeys or Aston for a couple but they wouldn't split the set then I saw a solid silver Gong - they told me had been long - Maury Antoinette distrait are gonna beat the carbon off a dozen pictures in his smudgy sort of style next thing was a puppy with a cute face awake in any suitcase made of crocodile her Knightsbridge stores appear adjuster drawers at funny little and or so on and decorated doors I bought one Tory Astor waiter done I don't know how we'll use it but he looks a lot of fun the top so made of savory marble Oh [Music] now the only thing that worries me and flusters me and flurries me is how to get the flippin lot you may be looking for something to fill the inner man if so welcome to the temple of greed anything that anyone ever thought of eating has been gathered from the corners of the earth under this roof [Music] [Music] [Music] if you're still interested in food you needn't just buy the stuff the Mayfair hotel is only one of the many places which are only too glad to let you eat it you can try the roast beef of Old England or Scotch salmon the best from these islands or from across the seas [Music] yes there are all kinds of places in which to settle that deal over cigars or make the most of a crib Suzette [Music] [Applause] for the 8 million or so Londoners who aren't lunching in a plush restaurant there are plenty of other places in which to eat pleasantly on a bright sunny day you might find several score of them in one or other of the prety Riverside public houses where anyone can share a plate of food with the Swans and wash it down with half a pint of bitter the River Thames has always been the main highway running through London the city as its existence to the river the first Britons built a settlement there because it was the last place where the river could be forded before the open sea the Romans built the first London Bridge once there was a forest of rigging along the Thames and to this day the brown sale of a Thames barge can be seen on them skipper Bob Roberts knows his own songs of London the river and sea shanties of the old days when there were fewer bridges and Waterman ferried their passengers from shore to shore in rowing boats [Music] tell the young London water from black rise to regular fly and he feathered is always such skills and dexterity pleasing each made and delighting his god and sang so sweet he sang so merry the couples also to hire his weary and he became known as the young love and Mary could not find a true love [Music] the Blackfriars Waterman and all his brothers a little more than a memory now but the river still holds its place water buses can take you for a trip down the Thames giving a new perspective to old landmarks the Tower of London said Paul's Cathedral Westminster [Music] the sweet design so married lover defendants weary and Brittney fate was the pair across the Barrington they were Mary Nick May time in Radford one two three four I'm a better there are dearly [Music] people from God [Music] [Applause] they're weary and everyone goes by the black ride [Music] hey that hallway lalala [Music] the river brought the sea up to London the sea brought the whole wide world galleons barks full-rigged ship sailed from here in search of adventure the merchantman and liners of today follow in their wake [Music] the last of the tea clippers the Cutty Sark has found her final dock in Greenwich where the sea and ships have long been the main business of the place Greenwich reach has been a stretch of the Thames familiar to generations of seamen and down on the bank is the Royal Naval College in buildings designed for it by Christopher Wren on the hill above stands the most famous Observatory in the world every clock on earth still ticks to Greenwich Mean Time and the zero meridian of the globe runs through the grounds so that even the smallest person can have one foot in the East and one in the West in a wing of Kensington Palace you can learn more of London's past the Victoria and Albert and the British Museum are world-famous but this is London's own Museum here you can see what Londoners wore down the ages how they amused themselves how they lived look into Queen Victoria's cradle look into the eyes of the first Queen Elizabeth this effigy was carried at her funeral more than 350 years ago old London is recreated here when the Thames froze and a frost Fair on the river competed with Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on the Southwark Bank Londoners have a long tradition of entertainment a liking for music and drama which continues up to today the world's first regular television service was started in London and an old ballad which came to London with The Weavers of Spitalfields finds a new setting under the studio lights once there was a bachelor who lived all alone he worked at the weavers trade and the only only thing he ever did wrong was to woo their young he moved her in the wintertime and in the summertime and the only unique thing wants to keep her from the foggy foggy view [Music] one night Chino closed by his side when he was fast asleep she threw her arms around his began to weep she wept she cried she almost died unless what could he [Music] to keep her from the foggy foggy view [Music] and the only only he ever did wrong was the keeper from the foggy foggy view spring summer autumn winter even in the center of the city Londoners can watch the changing seasons in the parks flowers trees and water have something new to offer at all times of the year [Music] [Music] [Music] just to keep from the foggy foggy dude [Music] one way to keep out the foggy foggy view is in a London pub the cut glass and gleaming mahogany of the red lion near some James's will put a sparkle in anyone's eye a little of what you fancy always does you good the bow maids have their own brand of Rybak chat which concludes the mouth of the most argumentative customer will make the shyest air his opinions like a politician these elaborate interiors have been called the great Victorian contribution to the architecture of drink they are full of corners where you can stand and sip and get in the mood for a show whether it's to become garden or the Palladium [Music] has a thousand treasure [Music] under as a thousand pleasure [Music] really [Music] [Applause] [Music] every night is an occasion for somebody whether it's a dinner for two over a bottle of wine in Soho or a gala premiere in full evening dress and decorations where the famous await the arrival of Her Majesty the Queen [Music] you can't really say it ever gets dark in London's West End the theatre names light up the night making their own patterns of invitation and promise [Music] but by-and-large Londoners can make their own entertainment the water man's arms is far away from the lights of the West End among the docks and warehouses of the Isle of Dogs here the real tradition of Music Hall is as strong as ever it was [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I will [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] if you're still not ready for bed you might try going to a nightclub big hotels and intimate supper rooms are open to the wide-awake you can hear a song of London they're to the romantic torture song of the 20th century sophisticate [Music] the night we live there was magic abroad in the air [Music] Nightingale in square [Music] [Applause] [Music] he wore a frown how could he know that me worse [Music] in Berkeley school [Music] [Applause] [Music] in black [Music] [Applause] No [Music] [Applause] that my boy [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] London bow at the flower of cities or goodnight [Music]