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Sing a Song for Sixpence
Engraved and Printed by Edmund Evans.
The Complete Collection of Pictures & Songs, 500 pages, 37.4×28.6cm, pp. 185-217.
London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1887 (1880).
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Introduction
Caldecott changed the original opening line of the traditional nursery rhyme “Sing a Song of Sixpence” as it had been since the early eighteenth century to this “Sing a Song for Sixpence.” Caldecott starts with a girl giving six pence to a woodcutter, who buys a pocketful of rye. He added his own happy ending in handwriting, “But there came a Jenny Wren and popped it on again.” Various theories have been given for the references and customs evoked by scenes in the story: the king, the queen, the maid, the twenty-four blackbirds, etc.
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“Sing a song for sixpence”
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Sing a song for sixpence.
One of R.Caldecott's Picture Books
One of R.Caldecott's Picture Books
“Sing a song for sixpence”
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SING A SONG FOR SIXPENCE.
“Sing a song for sixpence”
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(♪) SING a Song for Sixpence,
“Sing a song for sixpence”
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A Pocketful of Rye;
“Sing a song for sixpence”
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(♪) Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds
“Sing a song for sixpence”
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(♪) When the Pie was opened, The Birds began to sing;
“Sing a song for sixpence”
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Was not that a dainty Dish
“Sing a song for sixpence”
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(♪) To set before the King?
“Sing a song for sixpence”
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The King was in his Counting-house,
“Sing a song for sixpence”
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(♪) Counting out his Money.
“Sing a song for sixpence”
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The Queen was in the Parlour,
“Sing a song for sixpence”
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(♪) Eating Bread and Honey.
“Sing a song for sixpence”
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The Maid was in the Garden,
“Sing a song for sixpence”
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(♪) Hanging out the Clothes;
“Sing a song for sixpence”
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There came a little Blackbird, And snapped off her Nose.
“Sing a song for sixpence”
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But there came a Jenny Wren and popped it on again. (♪)
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