| Richard Lane Freer - 1866 - 316 páginas
...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 to... | |
| Robert Henry Newell - 1868 - 320 páginas
...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 páginas
...! 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...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 money... | |
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1870 - 524 páginas
...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... | |
| 1871 - 72 páginas
........ 60 XXVII. THE SHORT SONG, .... 62 NURSERY RHYMES. CHANSONS ENFANTINES. I. The Song of Sixpence. Sing a song of sixpence, A bag full of rye, Four and...; 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... | |
| Merry heart, Melville Gray - 1871 - 244 páginas
...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 his... | |
| Mortimer Collins - 1873 - 264 páginas
...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... | |
| Nursery rhymes - 1874 - 588 páginas
...original subject of the following song.] SlNG 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 ; Was not that a dainty dish To set before the King? The King was in his counting-house, Counting out... | |
| Georgiana Charlotte Clark - 1876 - 296 páginas
...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... | |
| 1876 - 160 páginas
...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... | |
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