- For the short story with the same name see: Sing a Song of Sixpence
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.