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between two people. It alternates between a normal individual clap by one person 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. If told by a parent to a child, the "B" and
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Marking pastry or baked goods with an identifiable mark may stem from a time when households without an oven of their own could take their items to a local baker or bake house, paying to have their items finished for a small fee. Marking the pastry would have been a way to ensure the return of the
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into the clapping game routine, allowing them to make their escape.
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The earliest recorded version of the rhyme appears in
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Patty-cake appears as a plot point in the 1988 film
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The "pat-a-cake" song and clapping game was used by
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Index

Pat-a-cake
Cupcake
Pattycake (gorilla)

William Wallace Denslow
Mother Goose
Nursery rhyme
Songwriter(s)
English
nursery rhyme
Roud Folk Song Index
Thomas D'Urfey
James Hook

clapping game
first name
Bob Hope
Bing Crosby
Road to
punch
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
List of nursery rhymes
"Roud Folksong Index S218300 Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man"
Vaughan Williams Memorial Library
English Folk Dance and Song Society



I. Opie and P. Opie
The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes

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