✦ The Rhyme ✦
Hot Cross Buns
Traditional English nursery rhyme. Public domain.
Hot cross buns! Hot cross buns! One a penny, two a penny, Hot cross buns!
If you have no daughters, Give them to your sons; One a penny, two a penny, Hot cross buns!
✦ A Nursery Rhyme ✦
One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns! A rhyme that began as the call of street sellers in old London.
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✦ The Rhyme ✦
Traditional English nursery rhyme. Public domain.
Hot cross buns! Hot cross buns! One a penny, two a penny, Hot cross buns!
If you have no daughters, Give them to your sons; One a penny, two a penny, Hot cross buns!
✦ About the Rhyme ✦
“Hot Cross Buns” began as a street cry, the song London bakers and sellers called out to sell spiced buns marked with a cross, traditionally eaten at Easter time.
Today it is often one of the first songs children learn to play on the recorder or piano, because it uses only three notes.
✦ Talk About It ✦