Sing a Song of Sixpence (nursery rhyme)


 * For the short story with the same name see: Sing a Song of Sixpence1DB96757-6DC9-4642-9B27-AD60E8383B23.jpeg

Sing a Song of Sixpence is a nursery rhyme referenced in three stories by Agatha Christie, in the Miss Marple novel A Pocket Full of Rye, and in the short stories Sing a Song of Sixpence and Four and Twenty Blackbirds.

The rhyme:
 * 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 his money;
 * The queen was in the parlour,
 * Eating bread and honey.


 * The maid was in the garden,
 * Hanging out the clothes;
 * When down came a blackbird
 * And pecked off her nose.