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
oh wasn't that a horrible dish to set before the king
the king was in his counting house counting out his money
the queen was in a parlour eating bread and honey
the maid was in the garden pegging out some clothes
and suddenly came a blackbird and pecked at her nose
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 nursery rhyme is called "Sing a Song of Sixpence."
Sing a Song of Sixpence
24 blackbirds were baked in the pie. In the actual rhyme it is written in the old style of four-and-twenty.
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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.
four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie - from the nursery rhyme 'sing a song of sixpence'
Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie From the nursery rhyme "Sing a song of sixpence"
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.
"Three score and ten" in the nursery rhyme "The Four and Twenty Blackbirds" refers to the number 70. In the context of the rhyme, it signifies the age of the "old woman" who was baking the pie with the blackbirds in it.
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.
If someone is one and twenty, they are one and twenty years old, or one plus twenty years old, or 1 + 20 or 21 years old. Another similar wording is "four and twenty black birds" from Sing a Song of Sixpence, the well known English nursery rhyme. In those couple of lines of verse, four and twenty blackbirds is four plus twenty blackbirds or 4 + 20 or 24 blackbirds.
Sing a song of six pence.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?One assumes that the king's baker put them in the pie.
Robin
Check this link out http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Mabinogion/Taliesin maybe the four and twenty blackbirds were the king's bards that taliesin feed the spoilt rye too, to turn them into idiots (tripping) to fool the king. so in answer to your question, quite possibly! namaste, nomes x nomesii@gmail.com