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Thread #115849   Message #2483016
Posted By: Phil Edwards
03-Nov-08 - 02:58 AM
Thread Name: Origins: London's Burning / Scotland's Burning
Subject: RE: London's Burning
Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs. Pedantically, you could argue that the song doesn't date back to the Great Fire in the sense of being written in response to it. But it was clearly around at the time, and the 'London' part may well have stuck to it as a result of the fire. Score one for folk etymology!