Ophelia wrote:

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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


You didn't read _Punch_, Ms. O....???


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Greg