Sunday 21 March 2010
Tune of the Day: Hot Cross Buns
Traditional English nursery rhyme
A surviving British Easter custom is the eating of “hot cross buns”, spiced currant cakes with a cross marked on the top. In former times, the bun vendors were a familiar feature of street life on Good Friday, with their cry of "Hot cross buns, one a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns!" Nowadays, the buns are sold from bakeries well before the Easter holiday.
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!