[Sca-cooks] RE: Sca-cooks digest, Vol 1 #1102 - 15 msgs

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Marilyn Traber wrote:

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> Hmpf!
>
> See if I bring youse folks 4 and 20 veal birds y-baked in a pye!
>
> So, anybody know the whole rhyme? I think the king is in the counting house,
> and the queen is eating bread and honey - but isn't there more than that? I
> just went looking for my 'Children's Garden of Verses' but I think it is in
> the barn ;-(
> margali



> Sing a Song of Sixpence
>
> Sing a song of sixpence
> A pocket full of rye
> Four and twenty blackbirds
> Baked into a pie
>
> When the pie was opened
> The birds began to sing
> Was that not a tasty dish
> To set before a king?
>
> The King was in his counting house
> Counting out his money
> The Queen was in the parlor
> Eating bread and honey
>
> The Maid was in the garden
> Hanging out the clothes
> When down came a blackbird
> And snapped off her nose!

Some people sing a song of ha'penny instead... along with other minor
variations.

Adamantius
--
Phil & Susan Troy

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let him get away with it, it's going  to continue." -- Joe Torre, 9/98