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The queen baked a pie for the king in the nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence." The maid in the nursery rhyme serves the pie to the king.
The word sixpence does not rhyme with any other words. Sing a Song of Sixpence is an English nursery rhyme.
The queen is eating bread and honey in the parlor in the nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence."
The king, the queen and a maid
four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie - from the nursery rhyme 'sing a song of sixpence'
24 black birds baked in a pie. From the nursery rhyme Sing A Song Of Sixpence.
The nursery rhyme is called "Sing a Song of Sixpence." It features a king counting his money, a queen eating bread and honey, and blackbirds diving into a pie made by the pastry chef.
The maid was in the garden, hanging up some clothes. When along came a blackbird and pecked off her nose.
It's a rather archaic way to say 45. Think of it as five plus forty. This construction is used in the English nursery rhyme, "Sing a Song of Sixpence": Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye. Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie. That is, there were 24 blackbirds baked in the pie.
Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie From the nursery rhyme "Sing a song of sixpence"
Four and Twenty Blackbirdssing a song of sixpence a pocket full of ryefour and twenty blackbirds baked in a piewhen the pie was opened the birds began to singoh wasn't that a horrible dish to set before the kingthe king was in his counting house counting out his moneythe queen was in a parlour eating bread and honeythe maid was in the garden pegging out some clothesand suddenly came a blackbird and pecked at her nose
The letters stand for the days of the week: Thursday (t), Friday (f), Saturday (s), Sunday (s), and Monday (m). These days correspond to the first line of the nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence."