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from Volkslieder (Folksongs)

Sing a song of sixpence
 (Sung text for setting by A. Malotte)
 See base text
Language: English 
Our translations:  GER
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;
Caw! Caw!
was not that a dainty dish,
To set before the king?
The king was in his counting house,
one, two, three, four, (ha, ha, ha, ha!)
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. 

Composition:

    Set to music by Albert Hay Malotte (1895 - 1964), "Sing a song of sixpence", published 1938 [ voice and piano ], New York: G. Schirmer

Text Authorship:

  • from Volkslieder (Folksongs)

See other settings of this text.

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Singt das Lied vom Sixpence", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Bertram Kottmann , Garrett Medlock [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2015-01-26
Line count: 16
Word count: 83

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