Lyric discussion by corporal_clegg 

"With four and twenty windows And a woman's face in ev'ry one." I recall a nursery ryme that goes: "four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie." can this house be the pie and the women are the blackbirds baked into it? If Frankie Lee died of thirst, then he too was "baked" into it. There was also a book written titled: "four and twenty blackbirds" written by someone named "Priest" though I don't know the date it was originally published. Also 24 is considered an unlucky number in Cantonese culture because its pronounication is similar to that of "easy to die". I doubt if this has any real signifigance though. I'm researching this further and will post new facts as I discovery them.

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