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> "Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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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:
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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,
>>> 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!
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>> Someone should write a book with a theme around that rhyme!
>> A mystery.
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> That was a well known nursery rhyme for me when I was a child




I don't know enough British history to remember, (my bad) but
didn't the rhyme refer to an actual king and a disagreement with
Parliament or some such?

gloria p