Pat A Cake, Pat A Cake Bakers Man

Pat A Cake, Pat A Cake Bakers Man is an English nursery rhyme.

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English - Nursery rhyme

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:Pat a Cake, Pat a Cake Bakers man.

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:Bake me a cake as fast as you can.

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:Roll it and pat it and mark it with "B"

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:And put it in the oven for Baby and me.

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It is often accompanied by hand-clapping between two people. It alternates between a normal individual clap with two-handed claps with the other person. The hands may be crossed as well. This allows for a possibly complex sequence of clapping that must be coordinated between the two.

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If told by a parent to a child, the "B" and "baby" in the last two lines are sometimes replaced by the child's first initial and first name.

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An alternative rendition has the third line as follows:

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:Pat it and prick it and mark it with "B"

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In this version the child pats, then "pricks" the palm with a finger, then draws a "B" on the palm.

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