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...Allingham. SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE. Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened,...to sing; Was not that a dainty dish To set before a king? The king was in his counting-house, Counting out his money; The queen was in the parlor Eating...

...supper. 82 SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE 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 ? 83 The king was in the counting house, Counting out...

...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...

...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,...