HOT-cross buns!

   Hot-cross buns!

One a penny, two a penny, 

   Hot-cross buns!

   Hot-cross buns!

   Hot-cross buns!

If you have no daughters, 

   Give them to your sons.

Halliwell, James Orchard, Comp. Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1853, p. 41-42. No. CLX

ONE a penny, two a penny, hot cross-buns;

If your daughters do not like them, give them to your sons;

But if you have none, of these pretty little elves,

You cannot do better then eat them yourselves.

The Old Fashioned Mother Goose' Melodies: Complete with Magic Colored Pictures. G. W. Carleton & Co./Donaldson Brothers, 1879.

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.

Lang, Andrew, Ed. The Nursery Rhyme Book. Illus. by L. Leslie Brooke. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1897, p. 105.

Hot cross buns!

   Hot cross buns!

   One a penny, two a penny,

   Hot cross buns!

   If your daughters do not like them

   Give them to your sons;

But if you haven't any of these pretty little elves

You cannot do better than eat them yourselves.

Opie, Iona and Peter Opie, Comps. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1951, p.107. No. 84

Hot cross buns!

   Hot cross buns!

   One a penny, two a penny,

   Hot cross buns!

   If your daughters do not like them

   Give them to your sons;

But if you haven't any of these pretty little elves

You cannot do better than eat them yourselves.

Baring-Gould, William S. and Cecil Baring-Gould, Eds. The Annotated Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Old and New. New York: Bramhall House, 1962, p. 185. No. 351