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Sing a song of sixpence
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*Nursery rhyme first printed in about 1744 and very much interpreted ever since. According to the most fanciful theory, the blackbirds singing in the pie set before the king are the choirs of monasteries dissolved by *Henry VIII, while the queen in the parlour is *Catherine of Aragon and the maid in the garden her successor, *Anne Boleyn.
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