With 2,000 years of history,
It is a long and powerful story.
The City of London
The City Capital
Stands strong and tall.
Surviving plagues and fires
Civil wars, air raids and terror-risks,
The City of London stands
Growing more powerful,
Than even a city like Istanbul.
The City of London
Grows stronger by the minute
Do you happen to live in it?
THE LONDON LEGENDS
The Mighty Brutus of Troy
Defeated the giants Gog and Magog,
The creatures which rose from the bog.
According to Historia Regum Britanniae
Of Geoffrey of Monmouth
To create the land of London.
The legendary King Lud
The man was wise and he was good,
Renamed the town CaerLudein
After a bowl of sweet pudding.
London the name was thus derived
While the King ate on his royal plate.
The good king was buried at Ludgate.
The City of London
Grows stronger by the minute
Do you happen to live in it?
ROMAN LONDON
After the invasion of AD 43
It was time to build a city.
Londinium was established
Where the locals fished,
As a civilian settlement and town
With the people and the crown,
By the early Romans of the town.
Early Roman London
Was a very small patch,
Being roughly the size of Hyde Park.
Walking across Londinium in the dark,
Would have been a walk in the Park.
The City of London
Grows stronger by the minute
Do you happen to live in it?
ANGLO-SAXON LONDON
Mellitus was the first
Post-Roman Bishop,
Who ascended with peace and hope.
In 604 AD, when Saeberht
