✦ The Rhyme ✦
Pat-a-Cake
Traditional English nursery rhyme. Public domain.
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker’s man, Bake me a cake as fast as you can; Pat it and prick it, and mark it with B, And put it in the oven for Baby and me.
✦ A Nursery Rhyme ✦
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker’s man, bake me a cake as fast as you can! The clapping rhyme that babies have loved for over three hundred years.
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✦ The Rhyme ✦
Traditional English nursery rhyme. Public domain.
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker’s man, Bake me a cake as fast as you can; Pat it and prick it, and mark it with B, And put it in the oven for Baby and me.
✦ About the Rhyme ✦
“Pat-a-Cake” is one of the oldest nursery rhymes still in use. A version appeared in a play by Thomas D’Urfey in 1698.
It is a clapping game: two people pat their hands together in rhythm. Families often swap the “B” for the first letter of the child’s own name.
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