his crew carried out their raids) and the "clothes" are the prize ship sails. The mention of another "blackbird" pulling off the maid's nose from her face is Blackbeard bragging about his plans to raid the prize ship. The version of "Sing a Song of Sixpence" on Snopes does not have any verse where the maid's nose is reattached to her face. Every Lost Legend had a link to a page explaining it was fictional and the reason for posting it. In 2003, the TV series Mostly True Stories?: Urban Legends Revealed used this story as a true or false question before a commercial break when it asked "Was the nursery rhyme 'Sing a Song of Sixpence' used as a code to recruit pirates?". After the break, the show mistakenly claimed it was "true" and mentioned its supposed connection to Blackbeard implying that Snopes was used by the show's producers as a source. Snopes then posted a page about the mistake on their "Media goofs" section noting that whoever made the show apparently did not see the explanation and had fallen for a story that was fictional. In later airings of the episode, the answer was corrected so say that the Blackbeard connection was "false" with Snopes' page on Mostly True Stories? was edited to note the correction. According to Snopes, no public statement was made about the mistake by the show's producers. See also Entremet or subtlety, an elaborate form of dish common in Europe, particularly England and France, during the late Middle Ages. Pop out cake Four-and-Twenty, a racehorse. References External links 1744 songs English children's songs English nursery rhymes Songs about birds Songs about music English folk songs Fictional birds