The nursery rhyme that inspired The Queen Was in the Parlour is listed as what number in the Roud Folk Song Index?
The Queen Was in the Parlour The Queen Was in the Parlour: a romance in three acts is a play by the English writer Noël Coward. Belonging to the Ruritanian romance genre, its title is drawn from a line in the nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence". Although written in 1922, it was not produced until 24 August 1926, when it was premiered at the St Martin's Theatre.
The Lark in the Morning (English folk song) The Lark in the Morning (Roud ) is an English folk song. It was moderately popular with traditional singers in England, less so in Scotland, Ireland and the USA. It starts as a hymn to the ploughboy's life, and often goes on to recount a sexual encounter between a ploughboy and a maiden resulting in pregnancy.