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    Hot Cross Buns and Good Friday

    Good Friday is the Friday before Easter. Hot cross buns are traditionally eaten on Good Friday in parts of England. (The other traditional Good Friday food being fish.)

    The song Hot Cross Buns is also sung. Here are the full lyrics to Hot Cross Buns…

    Hot Cross Buns

    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 to eat them yourselves!

    Enjoy eating your hot cross buns, today is Good Friday!

    Lisa

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    This entry was posted on Friday, April 14th, 2006 at 1:09 pm and is filed under Countries & Cultures, Easter, English, English Nursery Rhymes, Good Friday, Good Friday Songs, Great Britain, Holiday Songs, Holidays Around the World, Hot Cross Buns, Languages, Nursery Rhymes. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

    4 Responses to “Hot Cross Buns and Good Friday”

    1. Ciara Says:
      October 15th, 2006 at 10:47 pm

      I know a different Hot Cross Buns Song and it goes like this
      :

      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!

    2. anonymus Says:
      April 9th, 2009 at 3:37 pm

      That is strange..

    3. Our Grannies’ Recipes » Blog Archive » Good Friday Links & Hot Cross Buns Says:
      April 10th, 2009 at 7:17 am

      [...] also has a decent recipe with instructions and images here. Last but not least I found this wonderful poem online as well, its worth reading! Eoin Link SummaryNinja Bake SaleAttribution [...]

    4. Laney Says:
      April 12th, 2009 at 10:37 pm

      It is actually “one ha’ penny two ha’ penny hot cross buns”.
      A Ha ‘Penny is half a penny in England.

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