 | Richard Lane Freer - Archdeacons - 1866 - 316 pages
...historically true is that ancient nursery ditty, which, perchance, we have stigmatized as absurd — "Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye, Four...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... | |
 | Charles Henry Bennett - Children's poetry - 1866 - 86 pages
...snail, come 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
...historically true is that ancient nursery ditty, which, perchance, we have 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... | |
 | Robert Henry Newell - United States - 1868 - 320 pages
...caring sixpence for the Constitution; of betraying the blacks; of almost aspiring .to 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... | |
 | Old nursery songs - 1869 - 348 pages
...Yet she goes bare. I ING ! sing ! 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...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... | |
 | 1869 - 864 pages
...Parrott, Upham, EJ Hall, Rowland, Weber. Courtiers, Servants and Footmen. '75. THE HOUSF. OF LORDS. " Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye, Four and twenty Freshmen baked in a pie ! When the pie was opened the Fresh began to cough, Wasn't that a jolly dish... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - English poetry - 1870 - 524 pages
...praesto sunt tibi' labra sonent. FEG 54 A Song of Sixpence ING a song of sixpence, sing it to the sky : four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie : when the pie was opened the birds began to sing ; was not that a dainty dish to set before the king? GAMMER GURTON 55 Humpty Dumpty TJUMPTY Dumpty... | |
 | 1870 - 414 pages
...Parrott, Upham, EJ Hall, Rowland, Weber. Courtiers, Servants and Footmen. '75. The House of Lords. " Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye, Four and twenty Freshmen baked in a pie ! When the pie was opened the Fresh began to cough, Wasn't that a jolly dish... | |
 | 1872 - 488 pages
...Fonr-and-twenty blackbird)) baked in a pie ; When the pie wae opened the birds began to sing, Was not that a dainty dish to set before the king ? The king was in the parlor, counting out his money ; The queen was in the kitchen, eating bread and honey ; The maid... | |
 | 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...; 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... | |
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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; Was not that a dainty dish To set before the king? 
