Explore "Sing a Song o' Sixpence" by L. Frank Baum on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Sing a song o' sixpence, a handful 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?
IF you have never heard the legend of Gilligren and the King's pie you will scarcely understand the above verse; so I will tell you the whole story, and then you will be able to better appreciate the rhyme.