A brisk four lines telling a grump to sit by the fire, have a cup, and call the neighbours in. Short and bouncy, built for saying fast.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
Cross patch, draw the latch,
Sit by the fire and spin;
Take a cup and drink it up,
Then call your neighbors in.
About this rhyme
Text confirms the sequence: draw the latch, sit by the fire and spin, drink up, call the neighbours in.
A rhyme for grumbling, aimed at whoever is being a cross patch that day. It moves the sulker from the fireside chair back into company by the final line: spinning, drinking up, calling the neighbours in.
Good for a strop. Said gently, it tends to shift the mood along with it.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition