"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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> Ophelia wrote:
>> "Nancy Young" > wrote
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>>> Dora wrote:
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>>>> Here's an English nursery rhyme I remember from my childhood. Never
>>>> could get past the idea of eating those birds:
>>>>
>>>> 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 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!
>>>
>>> Someone should write a book with a theme around that rhyme!
>>> A mystery.
>>
>> That was a well known nursery rhyme for me when I was a child
>
> No doubt one of those children's rhymes that were political satire or
> something. I was kidding about the murder mystery,
> Agatha Christie had that covered in her book Pocketful of Rye.

I don't think we had heard of political satire in the 50s
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