who baked the blackbirds in the pie?
Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie: In preparation for a visit by the King to the home of Anne Boleyn, Hever Castle during their courtship, 'netters' were sent out into the fields of the estate with rye in their pockets to spread around to catch a mass of blackbirds.