 | Robert Ford - Ballads, Scots - 1913 - 408 pages
...SANG O' SAXPENCE. SING a sang o' saxpence, A baggie fu' o' rye ; Four-an '-twenty blackbirds Bakit in a pie. When the pie was opened The birds began to sing ; Wasna that a dainty dish To set before the king ? The king was in his chamber Counting o'er his money... | |
 | American poetry - 1923 - 658 pages
...The Knave of Hearts Brought back the tarts, And vowed he'd steal no more. "SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE** Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four-and-twenty...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... | |
 | Ernest Alfred Vizetelly - Love - 1915 - 396 pages
...addressed to George III every time that monarch's birthday came round — the familiar rhyme : 'And when the pie was opened, The birds began to sing;...Was not that a dainty dish To set before the King!' Pye, sometime a country gentleman, sometime an officer in the Militia, sometime a member of Parliament,... | |
 | John Gilbert Thompson - Readers - 1915 - 136 pages
...could help even the king of beasts. 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 jolly dish To set before the king ? more ore bore core score fore gore lore pore sore... | |
 | Andrew Ezra Pickard - Manual training - 1915 - 424 pages
...butter, A Song of Sixpence Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full 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? Pussy Cat Pussy cat, pussy cat, Where have you been?... | |
 | Burton Egbert Stevenson - American poetry - 1915 - 568 pages
...The Knave of Hearts Brought back the tarts, And vowed he'd steal no more. 'SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE" Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four-and-twenty blackbirds When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing: Wasn't that a dainty dish To set before the King?... | |
 | John Gilbert Thompson, Inez Bigwood - Readers - 1917 - 136 pages
...could help even the king of beasts. 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 jolly dish To set before the king ? Hickery, dickery, dock, The mouse ran up the clock;... | |
 | Michael Vincent O'Shea, Florence Holbrook, William Adelbert Cook - Spellers - 1917 - 142 pages
...ring kind fish song sing mind dish Sing a song of six-pence, 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? LESSON 33 gold luck burn hung cold tuck turn sung All... | |
 | William B. Cairns - American literature - 1918 - 526 pages
...familiar idiomatic English long-line : 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. Moreover, if the four-accent theory is sound,... | |
 | Arthur Beatty - 1918 - 414 pages
...familiar idiomatic English long-line : 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. Moreover, if the four-accent theory is sound,... | |
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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? 
