X:1 T:Hot Cross Buns C:Traditional M:4/4 L:1/8 Q:1/4=80 S:Three-note alternative melody shown at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Cross_Buns_(song) N:The familiar three-note nursery variant, transposed to C. Preserve the eight syllables of the penny phrase and sustained phrase endings. K:C E2 D2 C4 | E2 D2 C4 | CCCC DDDD | E2 D2 C4 |] w: Hot cross buns! Hot cross buns! One a pen-ny, two a pen-ny, hot cross buns!