Sing A Song Of Sixpence A Pocket Full Of Rye

On the 15 February 1971 Britain changed to decimalisation before than our coinage was made up of pounds shillings and pence half a shilling was sixpence . In the well-known nursery rhyme called “Sing a Song of Sixpence” many children sing it whilst dancing in a ring or in a line and miming each part, the song itself is thought to date back to the 18th century and is listed in the “Roud folk song index this index is made up of a database of 300,000 references to over 21,600 songs not just from the UK but from all over the world