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.
Jamie Foyers "Jamie Foyers" is a well-known song by the folk singer and songwriter Ewan MacColl. In "The Essential Ewan MacColl Songbook", Peggy Seeger wrote that the song was written in the period 1937-9 but could not give an exact year. The song was not copyrighted until 1963 by Stormking Music.