London is a dainty place
A great and gallant city!
All the streets are pav'd with gold,
And all the folks are witty.

Chorus:
There's your lords and ladies fine,
Riding in a coach and six;
Nothing to drink but claret wine,
Talking politics...

There's your beaux with powder'd clothes,
Bedaub'd from head to chin;
Their pocket-holes adorned with goldBut not one sous within.

Chorus

There your English actor goes
With many a hungry belly;
While heaps of gold are forc'd, God wot,
On Signor Farinelli.

There's your dames with dainty frames,
Skins as white as milk;.
Dressed each day in garments gay,
Of satin and of silk.

Chorus

London is a dainty place
A great and gallant city
All the streets are pav'd with gold,
And all the folks are witty.

Sources

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• A Brief History of London
  http://www.victorianweb.org/history/hist4.html
  

• Dickens' London Page
  http://charlesdickenspage.com/dickens_london.html
  

• Early Nineteenth-Century London -The Urban Contexts of Crimes Tried at the Old Bailey
  http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/history/london-life/london-life19th.html
  

• 19 century city
  http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~city19c/viccity/home.html
  

• London's Past Online - a bibliography of London history
  http://www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl/london.asp
  
• Dictionary of Victorian London
  http://www.victorianlondon.org

• Monuments and Dust: The Culture of Victorian London
  http://www.iath.virginia.edu/london//Archive/index.html
  
• Crystal Palace Online Publications
  http://www.iath.virginia.edu/london//Archive/On-line-pubs/publications.html
  
• Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Victorian London
  Focus on Whitechapel
  http://www.casebook.org/victorian_london/
  
• Map of John Snow's London in 1859
  http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/1859map/map1859a.html
  
• Nineteenth-Century London
  http://www.oldlondonmaps.com/19thclondon.html/
  
• Old London Maps (also has views and articles)
  http://www.oldlondonmaps.com/19thclondon.html
  

• Concert Life in 19th-Century London- Database and Research Project
  http://www.concertlifeproject.com/index.html
  

  • http://www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/apm/music/cl19c-db/!
    http://www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/apm/music/cl19c-db/homepage.htm!
    http://www.concertlifeproject.com/index.html

    Victorian Manchester
    http://www.leedstrinity.ac.uk/depart/history/mh/contents.htm
    

  • The Transformation of London Concert Life 1880-1914 (bibliography)
    http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/departments/music/research/london-concert-life.php
    

  • Papers on London History. (Ralph Turvey)
    http://www.turvey.demon.co.uk/Papers%20on%20London%20History.htm
    

  • Autistic Disorder in Nineteenth-century London -- Three Case Reports
    http://aut.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/8/1/7
    

  • Women, Economic Instability, and Poverty in London During the Nineteenth Century
    http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/huysman-london.html
    

  • Ellen Frankel Paul (Hoover Institution and U. of Colorado, Boulder)
    "Laissez Faire in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Fact or Myth?" Book length study
    http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/LtrLbrty/fplLNB3.html
    

  • Charles Booth and poverty mapping in late nineteenth century London
    http://mubs.mdx.ac.uk/Staff/Personal_pages/Ifan1/Booth/
    

  • Book Review(& author's response)for Artful Dodgers: Youth and Crime in Early Nineteenth-Century London
    http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/spring.html
    

  • Article: Civilising Mammon: Fraud and Profit in Nineteenth-Century London
    From: London School of Economics and Political Science | By: Paul Johnson
    http://www.fathom.com/feature/121984/
    

  • Book review
    Frankenstein's children: electricity, exhibition, and experiment in early-nineteenth-century London
    Reviewed by J L Heilbron
    Worcester College, Oxford
    http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1044240
    

  • Article
    PIckpockets 'garotters" and murderers
    http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/gcselinks/crimepunishment/resources/typesofcrime.pdf
    

  • Victorian Turkish baths:their origin, development, & gradual decline
    http://www.victorianturkishbath.org/
    

  • Introduction to John Claudius Loudon's 1829 plan for London, by Tom Turner
    http://www.londonlandscape.gre.ac.uk/1829.htm
    

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