A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes/Sing a Song of Sixpence

by Sabine Baring-Gould

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XXXIX. SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE

 

Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye,
Four and twenty blackbirds,
Bakèd 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.

4 & 20 BLACKBIRDS.