Hot Cross Buns

The Nursery Rhymes of England. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps. 1886.

  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.


Good-Friday Song

The Real Mother Goose. Blanche Fisher Wright. 1916.
Big Book of Nursery Rhymes. Edited by Walter Jerrold. Illustrated by Charles Robinson. 1920.

  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.


Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes. Walter Crane. 1877.

Hot cross buns, hot cross buns,
One a penny, two a penny,
  Hot cross buns.
If your daughters don't like them,
Give them to your sons,
One a penny, two a penny,
  Hot cross buns.


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.


The Little Mother Goose. Jessie Willcox Smith. 1912.

Hot cross buns,
Hot cross buns,
One a penny, two a penny,
  Hot cross buns.
If your daughters
Don't like 'em,
  Give them to your sons,
One a penny, two a penny,
  Hot cross buns.

Tags - Songs - Food - Bread - Buns - Money - Coin - Penny - Son - Daughter - Children - Good Friday -

Origin - Europe - British Isles -