A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes/Nursery Songs/XXXIX. SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE

by Sabine Baring-Gould

For other versions of this work, see Sing a Song of Sixpence.

Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye,
Four and twenty blackbirds,
Baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened
The birds began to sing,
Was not this a dainty dish
To set before the king?
The king was in his counting-house,
Counting out his money;
The queen was in the parlour,
Eating bread and honey;
The maid was in the garden,
Hanging out the clothes;
By came a blackbird
ANd pecked off her nose.