PATTY Cake, Patty Cake,

   Baker's Man;

That I will Master,

As fast as I can;

Prick it and prick it,

And mark it with a T,

And there will be enough

For Jackey and me.

The Original Mother Goose's Melody, As First Issued by John Newbery, of London, About A.D., 1760. Reproduced in fac-simile from the edition as reprinted by Isaiah Thomas, of Worcester, Mass. About A.D., 1785. With Introductory Notes by William H. Whitmore. Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1889. [Reprinted by Singing Tree Press, Book Tower, 1969] p. 49.

PAT-A-CAKE, pat-a-cake, baker's man;

So I will, master, as fast as I can:

Pat it, and prick it, and mark it with B,

Put it in the oven for Baby and me.

Old Nurse's Book: Of Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties. Ed. and Illus. by Charles H. Bennett. London, England: Griffith and Farran, 1857. [Facsimile edition reproduced from The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books. Toronto Public Library by Holp Shuppan, Publishers, Tokyo 1981.] p. 31.

PAT-A-CAKE, pat-a-cake, baker's man!

   (So I will, master), as fast as I can:

Pat it, and prick it, and mark it with T,

Put it in the oven for Tommy and me.

Lang, Andrew, Ed. The Nursery Rhyme Book. Illus. by L. Leslie Brooke. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1897, p. 47.

Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man,

Bake me a cake as fast as you can;

Pat it and prick it, and mark it with B,

Out it in the oven for baby and me.

Opie, Iona and Peter Opie, Comps. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1951, p. 341. No. 396

Patty Cake, Patty Cake,

Baker's Man;

That I will Master,

As fast as I can;

Prick it and prick it,

And mark it with a T,

And there will be enough

For Jackey and me.

Baring-Gould, William S. and Cecil Baring-Gould, Eds. The Annotated Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Old and New. New York: Bramhall House, 1962, p. 239. No. 600

Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker’s man,
Bake me a cake as fast as you can.
Roll it up and roll it up and mark it with a B, 
And throw it in the oven for baby and me!

Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker’s girl,
Take the dough and give it a whirl.
Roll it up and roll it up as long as you must,
And throw it in the oven for all of us!

Father Gander Nursery Rhymes: The Equal Rhymes Amendment. Santa Barbara, California: Advocacy Press, 1985. p.16.

Patty Cake, Patty Cake,
Baker’s Man;
That I will, Master,
As fast as I can.
Pricket, and Pricket,
And mark it with a T;
And there will be enough 
For Tommy and me.
 

Nurse Lovechild. Tommy Thumb’s Song Book, for all Little Masters and Misses, To be Sung to them by their Nurses, until they can sing themselves. Worcester, Mass.: Isaiah Thomas, 1788.

Patty Cake, Patty Cake,
Baker’s Man;
That I will Master,
As fast as I can;
Prick it and prick it, 
And mark it with a T,
And there will be enough 
For Jackey and me.
Maxim. The surest Way to gain our Ends is to moderate our Desires.

Delamar, Gloria T. Mother Goose, From Nursery to Literature. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers,1987. (Reprinted from Newbery’s Mother Goose Melody).

Pat a cake, pat a cake, little girl fair,
There’s a priest in the temple without any hair.
You take a tile, and I’ll take a brick,
And we’ll hit the priest in the back of the neck.

Delamar, Gloria T. Mother Goose, From Nursery to Literature. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers,1987. (Reprinted from Headland, Isaac. Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes, 1900.)