About Hot Cross Buns#
Hot Cross Buns began as a street seller’s cry rather than a nursery song. The spiced buns marked with a cross were sold around Lent and Good Friday, and the rhyme echoes a vendor calling the price, one a penny, two a penny. Printed versions reach back to the 1700s, though it survives today mostly as a first teaching tune.
On the six-hole ocarina it is about as gentle a start as you can find. The whole melody uses only three neighboring notes, C, D and E, so a brand-new player can get a recognizable song out of the instrument within minutes of picking it up.
Hot Cross Buns Ocarina Tab#
| EHot | Dcross | Cbuns | EHot | Dcross | Cbuns | COne | Cha' | Cpen- | Cny | ||
| Dtwo | Dha' | Dpen- | Dny | EHot | Dcross | Cbuns |