A bouncy little rhyme about a boy with a sweet tooth, over almost as soon as it starts. The hop, hop, hop ending gives you somewhere fun to land.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
Handy Pandy, Jack-a-dandy,
Loves plum cake and sugar candy.
He bought some at a grocer's shop,
And out he came, hop, hop, hop!
About this rhyme
Text confirms plum cake and sugar candy bought at a grocer's shop, and hopping out 'hop, hop, hop'.
Handy Pandy is pure nonsense name and rhythm, built to be said quickly: Jack-a-dandy, plum cake, sugar candy, then hopping off down the street. There's no lesson in it, just the fun of the sounds.
Hop three times on 'hop, hop, hop' at the end.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition