Can anyone remember a nursery rhyme with "a six pack, and a pocket full of dimes" in it?

Question

Someone mentioned this over the weekend and they thought it was made up because no one ever heard it before. I think it sounds a little familiar, but just cannot come up with anything.

Answer 1

It's called " Sing a song of six pence, a pocket full of rye, 4 and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.

Answer 2

I have heard of a pocket full of posies or a pocket full of tin but never a pocket full of dimes.  I have been a preschool teacher for 29 years but I am sure there are new rhymes out there I have not heard.  What you wrote sounds like something from a rock and roll song...I am an old rock and roller too!!!  hahahahaa

Answer 3

I always thought it was a funny-sounding nursery rhyme

I remember it from my childhood days... only a few years back lol

Here is more information about it:

Sing a Song of Sixpence

(Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie)

Nursery Rhyme & History

Action words to the poem " Sing a song of sixpence" Rhyme with some history!

Lovely words to this children's action nursery rhyme which is often referred to as blackbirds baked in a pie probably because the image that blackbirds baked in a pie would create in a child's mind . The rye ( a pocketful of rye) was purchased to feed birds. Blackbirds, and other song birds, were actually eaten as a delicacy! However a court jester may well have suggested to the court cook to bake a pie pastry crust and place this over some live blackbirds to surprise and amuse the King! It would not be unreasonable for the blackbirds to look for revenge hence "When down came a blackbird and pecked off her nose!" It is interesting to note that the references to the counting house and eating honey were the common man's  perception of what a King and Queen spent their time doing. The nursery rhyme Sing a song of sixpence or blackbirds baked in a pie always end with the tweaking of a child's nose!







Sing a song of sixpence

AKA blackbirds in a pie



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,

Oh wasn't that a dainty dish to set before the king?

The king was in his counting house 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!

Answer 4

Sing a song of sixpence

Apocket 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...

Answer 5

SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE

sing a song of sixpence,a pocket full of rye

four and twenty black birds,baked in a pie

when the pie was opened

the birds began to sing

wasnt that a dainty dish to set before a king?

the king was in his counting house

counting out his money

the queen was in the parlour

eating bread and honey

the maid was in the garden

hanging out the clothes

down flew a black bird

and pecked off her nose....tq