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London Pride (song)
"London Pride" is a patriotic song written and composed by Noël Coward during the Blitz in World War II.
== Composition ==
Coward wrote "London Pride" in the spring of 1941, during the Blitz. According to his own account, he was sitting on a seat on a platform in Paddington station, watching Londoners going about their business quite unfazed by the broken glass scattered around from the station's roof damaged by the previous night's bombing: in a moment of patriotic pride, he suddenly recalled an old English folk song which had been apparently appropriated by the Germans for their national anthem, and it occurred to him that he could reclaim the melody in a new song. The song started in his head there and then and was finished in a few days.
The song has six verses. The opening lines, repeated three times within the song, are:〔(London Pride full lyrics ) The Crooked Timber , 7 July 2007〕-
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 forever will be.
The flower mentioned is Saxifraga x urbium, a perennial garden flowering plant historically known as London pride, and which quickly colonised bomb sites.〔(London Pride ) Sung by Noel Coward. Accessed April 2013〕 The song was intended to raise Londoners' spirits during the Blitz. It was also circulated after the July 2005 bombings.
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