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"Scotland's Burning", "London's Burning", and variants are a song and nursery rhyme popular with children.
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The song can be sung as a round when each part starts two bars after the previous one. It may be an example of a nursery rhyme with tragic or violent themes. The lyrics are said to be about Great Fire of London, a five-day fire in the city of London in 1666. However, the first notation of a round in this theme dates from 1580.
The lyrics are mentioned in William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, Act 4, scene 1, when Gremio asks Curtis to prepare a warm fire for guests.
References
Scotland's Burning Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA