Sing a Song of Sixpence

by Mother Goose

　　

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Sing a Song of Sixpence features Walter Crane's illustrations from The Song of Sixpence Picture Book (1909).

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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.

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You might also enjoy L. Frank Baum's version in prose, Sing a Song O' Sixpence.

　　Featured in our collection of Children's Poems

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