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==Lyrics== <mapframe latitude="51.518" longitude="-0.099" zoom="13" text="Map of the [[City of London]] and surrounding area with locations of churches mentioned in the song. (Stepney is just to the east. Click the map to enlarge.) {{legend | #d00 | Definitely one of the churches mentioned in most popular version of the rhyme. }} {{legend | #d80 | May possibly be alluded to in standard version. }} <hr> {{legend | #d80 | textcolor=white | [[St Clement Danes]] | text=1 }} {{legend | #d80 | textcolor=white | [[St Martin-in-the-Fields]] | text=2 }} {{legend | #d00 | textcolor=white | [[St Leonard's, Shoreditch]] | text=3 }} {{legend | #d00 | textcolor=white | [[St Mary-le-Bow]] | text=4 }} {{legend | #d80 | textcolor=white | [[St Clement's, Eastcheap]] | text=5 }} {{legend | #d00 | textcolor=white | [[St Sepulchre-without-Newgate]] | text=6 }} {{legend | #d80 | textcolor=white | [[St Martin Orgar]] | text=7 }} {{legend | #d00 | textcolor=white | [[St Dunstan's, Stepney]] | text=8 }}" width="400" height="250">{ "type": "FeatureCollection", "features": [ { "type": "Feature", "properties": { "marker-symbol": "-number-definite", "marker-color": "#d80", "title": "[[St Clement Danes]]" }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ -0.113898, 51.513107 ] } }, { "type": "Feature", "properties": { "marker-symbol": "-number-definite", "marker-color": "#d80", "title": "[[St Martin-in-the-Fields]]" }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ -0.126944, 51.508889 ] } }, { "type": "Feature", "properties": { "marker-symbol": "-number-definite", "marker-color": "#d00", "title": "[[St Leonard's, Shoreditch]]" }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ -0.0772, 51.52675 ] } }, { "type": "Feature", "properties": { "marker-symbol": "-number-definite", "marker-color": "#d00", "title": "[[St Mary-le-Bow]]" }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ -0.093611, 51.513889 ] } }, { "type": "Feature", "properties": { "marker-symbol": "-number-definite", "marker-color": "#d80", "title": "[[St Clement's, Eastcheap]]" }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ -0.086892, 51.511325 ] } }, { "type": "Feature", "properties": { "marker-symbol": "-number-definite", "marker-color": "#d00", "title": "[[St Sepulchre-without-Newgate]] ('Old Bailey')" }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ -0.102353, 51.516686 ] } }, { "type": "Feature", "properties": { "marker-symbol": "-number-definite", "marker-color": "#d80", "title": "[[St Martin Orgar]]" }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ -0.087528, 51.510828 ] } }, { "type": "Feature", "properties": { "marker-symbol": "-number-definite", "marker-color": "#d00", "title": "[[St Dunstan's, Stepney]]" }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ -0.041667, 51.516944 ] } } ] }</mapframe> <blockquote><poem>Oranges and lemons, Say the bells of [[St Clement Danes|St. Clement's]]. You owe me five [[Farthing (British coin)|farthing]]s, Say the bells of [[St Martin-in-the-Fields|St. Martin's]]. When will you pay me? Say the [[St Sepulchre-without-Newgate|bells at Old Bailey]]. When I grow rich, Say the bells at [[St. Leonard's, Shoreditch|Shoreditch]]. When will that be? Say the bells of [[St Dunstan's, Stepney|Stepney]]. I do not know, Says the great bell at [[St Mary-le-Bow|Bow]]. Here comes a candle to light you to bed, And here comes a chopper to chop off your head! Chip chop chip chop the last man is dead<ref name=Opie1997>[[Iona and Peter Opie]]. ''The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes'' (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd ed., 1997), pp. 337β338.</ref> </poem> </blockquote>
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