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Hot Cross Buns (3drhymes)
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Description

A traditional nursery rhyme.


HOT CROSS BUNS= A traditional sweet bun specially made on Good Friday (The Friday at Easter) (see picture)

Transcript

Hot cross buns!
Hot cross buns!
One a penny, two a penny
Hot cross buns!

If you have no daughters
Then give them to your sons
One a penny, two a penny
Hot cross buns!

Meaning

The song comes from street cry referring to the spiced English bun associated with Good Friday known as a Hot Cross Bun.