 | Charles Henry Bennett - Children's poetry - 1866 - 86 pages
...out of your hole, Or else I will beat you as black as a coal. CING a song of sixpense, A pocket full of rye ; Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie ; When the pie was open'd, The birds began to sing ; Was not that a dainty dish, To set before the king ? The king was... | |
 | Richard Lane Freer - Archdeacons - 1866 - 316 pages
...stigmatized as absurd — "Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds liaked in a pie. When the pie was opened The birds began to sing, And was not this a dainty dish To set before a King?" But if we think this strange, what shall we say... | |
 | Robert Henry Newell - United States - 1868 - 320 pages
...be king, — 'Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds Cooked into a pie. When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing; Isn't this a pretty dish To set before a king ? ' " Thus went on this aged man, introducing all the... | |
 | Old nursery songs - 1869 - 348 pages
...what shall I sing ? The cat's run away with the pudding-bag string. 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, And was not that a dainty dish to set before the king ? The king was in the parlour, counting out his... | |
 | Nursery rhymes, English - 1871 - 72 pages
...62 NURSERY RHYMES. CHANSONS ENFANTINES. I. The Song of Sixpence. Sing a song of sixpence, A bag full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie...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... | |
 | Merry heart, Melville Gray - Nursery rhymes, English - 1871 - 244 pages
...busy Lady Wind ! THE SONG OF SIXPENCE. Sing a song of sixpence, a bag full of rye, Four-and-twenty blackbirds baked in a pie ; When the pie was opened, the birds began to sing : And was not that a dainty dish to set before the king ? The king was in the parlour, counting o'er... | |
 | Mortimer Collins - 1873 - 264 pages
...foret." " That 's the real original," said Tix, " of the dear old nursery rhyme about four-andtwenty blackbirds baked in a pie — ' When the pie was opened, the birds began to sing ; Wasn't that a pretty dish to set before the king ? ' " " What 's the proper reading of the last stanza... | |
 | Georgiana Charlotte Clark - 1876 - 296 pages
...hung would sit to hear canary 50 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... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1876 - 160 pages
...whop, whop, whop! A Song of Sixpence. SING a song of sixpence, a pocketful of rye, Four-and-twenty blackbirds baked in a pie ; When the pie was opened the birds began to singWas not that a dainty dish to set before a king ? The king was in the counting-house, counting... | |
 | Emily Huntington - Home economics - 1878 - 148 pages
...a king ? tm& — -r ===^P^EF=== f IP~^ Sing a song of sixpence, a bag full of rye, Four-and-twenty blackbirds baked in a pie ; When the pie was opened, the birds began to sing ; Wasn't that a dainty dish to set before a king? Little girls are learning how to mould the bread... | |
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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; Wasn't that a dainty dish To set before the king? 
