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Hot-cross Buns

Traditional

ages 0 to 2nursery rhymesread aloudabout 13 seconds aloud

The street cry of the hot-cross-bun seller, complete with the going rate, one a penny, two a penny. Easy to clap along to, and still sung every Easter.

From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.

Hot-cross Buns!
    Hot-cross Buns!
One a penny, two a penny,
    Hot-cross Buns!

Hot-cross Buns!
    Hot-cross Buns!
If ye have no daughters,
Give them to your sons.

Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition

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