Version 1
Lyrics
(Folk song)
1. 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;
Wasn’t that a dainty dish to set before the king?
2. The king was in his counting-house counting out his money;
The queen was in the parlor eating bread and honey;
The maid was in the garden hanging out her clothes,
When up came a blackbird and pecked off her nose!
Version 2
See also
- Subjects: nursery rhymes / singing
- Harmony: countermelodies /Â Orff arrangements / chords I V / one chord
- Melody: mi, so, la /Â E,G,A
- Meter: 4
- Scale: pentatonic (alternate version)
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- Song with chords (several versions – including mi so la, & pentatonic in different keys), Melody Lessons, 2 Recorder Versions (E,G,A) and (D,E,G,A,B,C’), Orff arrangements with glockenspiel countermelody, Sound Effect/Homemade Instrument arrangement
- 2 MIDI files
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