London Pride
Mel Tormé

London Pride has been handed down to us.
London Pride is a flower that's free.
London Pride means our own dear town to us,
And our pride it for ever will be.

Whoa, Liza, see the coaster barrows,
Vegetable marrows and the fruit piled high.
Whoa, Liza, little London sparrows,
Covent Garden Market where the coasters cry.

Cockney feet mark the beat of history.
Every street pins a memory down.
Nothing ever can quite replace
The grace of London Town.

There's a little city flower every spring unfailing
Growing in the crevices by some London railing,
Though it has a Latin name, in town and countryside
We in England call it London Pride.

London Pride has been handed down to us.
London Pride is a flower that's free.
London Pride means our own dear town to us,
And our pride it for ever will be.

Hey, lady, when the day is dawning
See the policeman yawning on his lonely beat.
Gay lady, Mayfair in the morning,
Hear your footsteps echo in the empty street.

Early rain and the pavement's glistening.
All Park Lane in a shimmering gown.
Nothing ever could break or harm
The charm of London Town.

In our city darkened now, street and square and crescent,
We can feel our living past in our shadowed present,
Ghosts beside our starlit Thames who lived and loved and died
Keep throughout the ages London Pride.

London Pride has been handed down to us.
London Pride is a flower that's free.
London Pride means our own dear town to us,
And our pride it for ever will be.

Grey city, stubbornly implanted,
Taken so for granted for a thousand years.
Stay, city, smokily enchanted,
Cradle of our memories and hopes and fears.

Every Blitz your resistance toughening,
From the Ritz to the Anchor and Crown,
Nothing ever could override
The pride of London Town.


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  (Ah, the Apple Trees) When the World Was Young   (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66   A House is Not a Home   A Lovely Way To Spend an Evening   A Stranger in Town   A (This Is) A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening   A Cottage for Sale   A Fine Romance   A Foggy Day   A House Is Not a Home   A Little Kiss Each Morning   A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening   A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening [Live]   A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square   A Shine on Your Shoes   A Stranger in Town   A Stranger in Town [#]   A Time for Us   After the Waltz Is Over   Again   All in Love Is Fair   All of You   All This and Heaven Too   Alone Together   Along With Me   And Mimi   And So to Bed   Angel Eyes   Anything Goes   Anything Goes [Live]   April in Paris   April Showers   Around the World   Around the World [#]   as used in the film Words & Musi [From Words and M...   Autumn in New York   Autumn in New York [Live]   Autumn Leaves   Autumn Leaves   Autumn Serenade   Back in Your Own Backyard   Ballerina   Because of You   Better Use Your Head   Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea   Bewitched   Bewitched   Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered   Big City Blues   Black Moonlight   Black Moonlight   Blue and Sentimental   Blue Moon   Blue Moon [From Words and Music]   Blue Moon [Live]   Blue Moon [MGM 1948]   Blue Skies   Blues in the Night   Blues in the Night [*]   Bluesette   Body and Soul   Born to Be Blue   Born to Be Blue [Live]   Brahms Lullaby   Broadway   Buzzard Song   By Myself   Bye Bye Blackbird   Careless Hands   Carioca   Cast Your Fate to the Wind   Cement Mixer   Changing My Tune   Cheek to Cheek   Christmas Song   Comin Home Baby   Cottage for Sale   Cotton Tail [Instrumental]   Country Boy   Cuckoo in the Clock   Dancing in the Dark   Danny Boy   Day by Day   Day Dreaming   Day In - Day Out   Day in Day Out   Day In-Day Out   Day In, Day Out   Do Do Do   Do Do Do [#]   Do It Again   Dream a Little Dream of Me   Dream Dancing (Intro)   Early Autumn   Early Autumn [Live]   Fascinating Rhythm   Fine and Dandy   Folks Who Live on the Hill   For All We Know   For You, for Me, for Evermore   For You, For Me, Forevermore   Forty Second Street   Frenesi   From This Moment On   From This Moment On [Live]   Games People Play   Get Happy   Get Happy [Live]   Get Out of Town   Get out of Town [Live]   Get Your Kicks on Route 66 [Live]   Girl Next Door   Give Me the Simple Life   Gloomy Sunday   Glow Worm [Christmas Arrangement]   Gone With the Wind   Goody Goody   Goody Goody [Live]   Goody, Goody   Greensleeves   Guilty   Have You Met Miss Jones?   Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas   Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (for the fi...   Heart and Soul   Heart and Soul [#]   Hello, Young Lovers   Hey Look Me Over [From Wildcat]   Hey, Look Me Over!   Hit the Road to Dreamland   Hold Tight   Hold Tight (Want Some Sea Food Mama)   Hold Tight (Want Some Sea Food Mama)   Homeward Bound   Hooray for Love [*]   How Are Things in Glocca Morra   How Are Things in Glocca Morra   How High the Moon   How Long Has This Been Going On   How Long Has This Been Going On   How Long Has This Been Going On?   I Believe   I Cant Give You Anything But Love   I Concentrate on You   I Could Have Told You   I Could Have Told You So   I Could Write a Book   I Cover the Waterfront   I Found a Million Dollar Baby (In a Five and Ten C...   I Found a Million Dollar Baby (In a Five and Ten C...   I Get a Kick Out of You   I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues   I Know Why   I Know Why (And So Do You)   I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart   I Surrender Dear   I Surrender, Dear   I Thought About You   I Understand   I Wish I Were in Love Again   I Wish I Were in Love Again [#]   I Wished on the Moon   I Wished on the Moon [Param]   If I Had a Girl Like You   If You Could See Me Now   In Love in Vain   In the Evening   In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down)   In the Still of the Night   It Happened in Monterey   It Happened in Monterey/Ramona   It Happened in Sun Valley   It Might as Well Be Spring   It Never Entered My Mind   Japanese Sandman   Jeepers Creepers   Jeepers Creepers [Live]   Johnny One Note   Just Friends   Just in Time   Learn to Croon   Let Me Off Uptown   Let There Be Love   Limehouse Blues   Little White Lies   Live Alone and Like It [Stereo]   Lonely Town   Long Ago (And Far Away)   Long Ago and Far Away   Looking at You   Love for Sale   Love for Sale [Live]   Love in Bloom   Love Is Here to Stay   Love Is Just Around the Corner   Love Is Just Around the Corner [Live]   Love Is the Sweetest Thing   Love Me or Leave Me   Love Walked In   Lover, Come Back to Me   Lover, Come Back to Me [Live]   Lullaby of Birdland   Lullaby of the Leaves   Magic Town   Manhattan   Memories of You   Midnight Sun   Moon Song   Moonlight Becomes You   Moonlight in Vermont   More Than You Know   More Than You Know   Mountain Greenery   My Baby Just Cares for Me   My Buddy   My Foolish Heart   My Funny Valentine   My Little Red Book   My One and Only Highland Fling   My Romance   My Sweetie Went Away   New York, New York   Nice Work If You Can Get It   Night and Day   Nina   Nobody Else But Me   Oh You Beautiful Doll   Oh You Beautiful Doll   Oh, Lady Be Good   Oh, What a Night for Love   Oh, You Beautiful Doll   Oh, You Crazy Moon   Old Devil Moon   Old Devil Moon [Live]   On a Little Street in Singapore   On a Little Street in Singapore   On Green Dolphin Street   On Green Dolphin Street [MGM 194]   On the Street Where You Live   One Morning in May   Opus One   Our Love Is Here to Stay [Live]   P.S. I Love You   Pass That Peace Pipe   Pennies from Heaven   Perfidia   Pick Yourself Up   Pieces of Dreams   Please   Polka Dots and Moonbeams   Polka Dots and Moonbeams   Preluce to a Kiss   Prelude to a Kiss   Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars   Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head   Recipe for Romance   Red Rubber Ball   Riding High   Right Now   Route 66   Route 66 [Live]   Secret Agent Man   Send in the Clowns   Sent for You Yesterday and Here You Come Today   Sent for You Yesterday and Here You Come Today   Seventeen [*]   Sidewalks of New York   Silly Habits   Silver Bells   Since I Fell for You   Sing for Your Supper   Sing for Your Supper/Sing Sing Sing/Sing (Sing a S...   Sing You Sinners   Skylark   Sleigh Ride   Smoke Gets in Your Eyes   Some Like It Hot   Something to Live For   Sonny Boy   Soon   Sophisticated Lady   South America, Take It Away!   South of the Border   Spinning Wheel   Stairway to the Stars   Stairways to the Stars   Star Eyes   Stardust   Stardust [Live]   Stay as Sweet as You Are   Stay as Sweet as You Are   Stormy Weather   Straighten up and Fly Right   Stranger in Town   Strangers in the Night   Sunday in New York   Sunday in New York [Stereo]   Superstition   Superstition [Live]   Sweet Georgia Brown   Sweet Georgia Brown   Take a Letter Miss Jones   Taking a Chance on Love   Tender Trap   Tenderly   Thanks   That Face   That Old Black Magic   That Old Black Magic [Live]   That Old Feeling   The Best Is Yet to Come   The Best Things in Life Are Free   The Best Things in Life Are Free [Stereo]   The Carioca   The Christmas Song   The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open ...   The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open ...   The Christmas Song [Live]   The Christmas Song [Version]   The Christmas Waltz   The Day You Came Along   The Folks Who Live on the Hill   The Girl Next Door   The Glory of Love   The Hut-Sut Song   The Lady Is a Tramp   The Moon Was Yellow   The Nearness of You   The Old Master Painter   The Second Time Around   The Song Is You   The Surrey With the Fringe on Top   The Surrey With the Fringe on Top [From Oklahoma!]   The Tender Trap   The Way You Look Tonight   The Windmills of Your Mind   These Foolish Things   They All Laughed   Three Little Words   Time Was   Too Close for Comfort   Too Close for Comfort [Live]   Too Darn Hot   Try a Little Tenderness   Until the Real Thing Comes Along   Vaya Con Dios (May God Be with You)   Walk on By   Warm Hands, Cold Heart [outtake][Outtake]   Watch What Happens   What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life   What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life [Live]   What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?   What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? [Live]   What Is This Thing Called Love   What Is This Thing Called Love?   What Is This Thing Called Love? [From Wake Up and ...   When April Comes Again   When Sunny Gets Blue   Where Are You?   Where Can I Go Without You   Where Can I Go Without You?   Where or When   White Christmas   Who Cares What People Say?   Windmills of Your Mind   Wonderful One   Wonderful One   Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troub...   You and the Night and the Music   You Are the Sunshine of My Life   You Belong To me [*]   You Leave Me Breathless   You Leave Me Breathless   You Make Me Feel So Young   You Make Me Feel So Young [Live]   You Oughta Be in Pictures   You Took Advantage of Me   Zaz Turned Blue

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