伦敦桥 – London Bridge

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This song is fun for children to act out while they sing.  In class, we use a version on a DVD called Sing to Learn from the Wink to Learn website.  I couldn’t find a simple version on line to link to, so I have posted a video of my kids and their friends doing a little impromptu performance so that your kids can hear the song and inspire them to sing and play at home!

The words can be different depending on the version you find.  For the word ‘fall’, I have heard  used in many different versions as  塌下来, 倒下来,  垮下来  (tā xiàlái, dǎo xiàlái, kuǎ xiàlái), all mean falling down, or crashing down etc.  The lyrics in our class DVD version are tā xiàlái , but my kids have used  dǎo xiàlái in their version as that is the version they are used to singing! Don’t worry, kids don’t get confused and hearing all being used at different times only gives them more Chinese vocab while they are taking it all in!
The basic lyrics (as per how my kids are singing it in the video) are as follows:

伦敦桥倒下来

倒下来   倒下来

伦敦桥倒下来

就要倒下来

 

lún  dūn  qiáo  dǎo  xià  lái

dǎo  xià  lái  dǎo  xià  lái

lún  dūn  qiáo  dǎo  xià  lái

jiù  yào  dǎo  xià  lái

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