 | Lincoln Hulley - 1925 - 64 pages
...Marcia-Jane: "I know one, too! Just listen, Uncle Ben: 'Sing a song of six-pence, Anne: A pocket full of ryej 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?'" Mary-Eloise: "Please, Marcia-Jane, now let me... | |
 | Sarah Tracy Barrows, Anna Dorothea Cordts - English language - 1926 - 224 pages
...penny." Said Simple Simon to the Pieman, "Indeed! I haven't any !" 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?" STEP 3. The child tries again to imitate the sound.... | |
 | Alpha Wilma Roth - 1927 - 186 pages
...A SONG OP SIXPENCE (V) Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye, Pour-and-t%venty black birds, 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? The king was in the counting house Counting out his... | |
 | Warren Albert McNeill - Allegory - 1928 - 122 pages
...comparable, almost line for line with the quite familiar: "Sing a song of six-pence, A pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, All the birds began to sing; Wasn't that a pretty dish To set before the king?" Then, if one has in... | |
 | Mother Goose - Children's poetry, English - 1970 - 148 pages
...Pussy say * Pussy-Cat said Hew, mew, mew, — and Robin flew away. 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 wasn't this a dainty dish to set before the king ? The king was in the parlour, counting out... | |
 | Education - 1914 - 668 pages
...the garden to hang up the clothes. The maid began to sing: "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 While she was singing a saucy blackbird flew at her and nipped her nose.... | |
 | Education - 1982 - 92 pages
...a-hunting. Mommy's gone to buy a skin To rock the baby bunting in. Oing 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? The king was in his counting house counting out his... | |
 | Zena Sutherland - Children's poetry - 1990 - 100 pages
...wore them west, But never could tell which one he loved best. 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? The king was in his counting-house Counting out... | |
 | Laura P. Broad - Education - 1991 - 356 pages
..."SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE" Sing a song of sixpence, A pocketful of rye. Four and twenty black birds 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? "TEENSY WEENSY SPIDER" The teensy weensy spider Crawled... | |
 | Christine Petrell Kallevig - Education - 1993 - 132 pages
...traditional nursery rhyme Pocket here refers to a unit of measurement. 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 a king! The king was in his counting house, Counting out his... | |
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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? 
