What is your favorite place to go in your city?
I don’t live in a city.
Though London is quite near
And now we’re on their tube map
So London it will be.
The thing to say bout London
Is it’s huge and such a sprawl
They say that if you’re tired of it
You’re tired of life itself.
So many things to see there
So many things to do
It really isn’t sensible
To even try and choose.
Perhaps you’ll go to Islington
Or stroll on Hampstead Heath.
Many love North London best
Where Arsenal play and Spurs.
Perhaps you’ll like South London
Where Greenwich is in such.
Or maybe you’ll like Bexley
Or Croydon is your place?
Or maybe you’re a Cockney
And love the old East End?
Good place for a knees up
Or a plate of jellied eels.
You know that I love Richmond,
Kingston, Wimbledon too
But if you are a visitor
No doubt what you should do.
You can’t say you saw London
Unless you’ve been ‘Up West’
History, Entertainment,
Restaurants and Shops.
Everything you’d want to see
Is there in the West End.
Come now for the Christmas lights.
They’re great in Regent’s Street.
I think perhaps a place to start
Would be Trafalger Square.
Nelson on his column,
activity below
And there’s the National Gallery
Just across the road.
A short walk to the Palace
You just go down the Mall
And not far from the shopping
in famous Oxford Street.
Then complete your evening
By going to a show
Leicester Square, Theatre Land
It’s not too far to go.
There is so much happening.
You mustn’t mind the crowds!
I wouldn’t want that every day
But go there for the buzz.
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