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- "Hot cross Buns!" in Nursery Rhymes (1860)
- "Hot-cross buns!" in The Nursery Rhymes of Mother Goose by Arthur Rackham (St. Nicholas, 1914)
- "Hot-Cross Buns" in The Real Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright (1916)
"Hot Cross Buns was an English street cry, later perpetuated as a nursery rhyme and an aid in musical education. It refers to the spiced English confection known as a hot cross bun, which is associated with the end of Lent and is eaten on Good Friday in various countries. The song has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13029." Warning: template has been deprecated.