Ok, I've been doing a lot of thinking about this song and I think I've finally come up with an interpretation that I can live with :
Obviously the central theme the song is written around is the children's rhyme London Bridge Is Falling Down. Now the "my fair lady" actually refers to a Queen or Duchess of the time however I once read that some historians were speculating that it could have been a reference to a very old English tradition of burying a dead virgin where ever a bridge was being built to ensure its steadfastness and I think this is what the lyrics are playing on.
I mean you could technically burry any child at a place to insure your bridge will stand since they're most certainly virgins but for the sake of the song its more fun to imagine a virgin sacrifice instead - the "my fair lady". Also if you want to take it further and say that the duchess involved with its building and ordering of its construction is the one they're talking about sacrificing it would make sense since before the construction of the bridge taxed heavily on the well being of many a family at time. Or you could have a woman who was going to be sacrificed and was afforded a bit of luxury until her time was up.
Ok, I've been doing a lot of thinking about this song and I think I've finally come up with an interpretation that I can live with :
Obviously the central theme the song is written around is the children's rhyme London Bridge Is Falling Down. Now the "my fair lady" actually refers to a Queen or Duchess of the time however I once read that some historians were speculating that it could have been a reference to a very old English tradition of burying a dead virgin where ever a bridge was being built to ensure its steadfastness and I think this is what the lyrics are playing on.
I mean you could technically burry any child at a place to insure your bridge will stand since they're most certainly virgins but for the sake of the song its more fun to imagine a virgin sacrifice instead - the "my fair lady". Also if you want to take it further and say that the duchess involved with its building and ordering of its construction is the one they're talking about sacrificing it would make sense since before the construction of the bridge taxed heavily on the well being of many a family at time. Or you could have a woman who was going to be sacrificed and was afforded a bit of luxury until her time was up.