ID: 1499
Date: 2000
Title: One a penny
Gender: Female 
Classification: Clapping 
Rhyme: 

One a penny, two a penny,
Three a penny, four,
Five a penny, six a penny,
Seven a penny, NO MORE!

(Rotorua, 2000)

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Background Info: Related to the rhyme "Hot Cross Buns", originally a London street cry:
 
Good Friday comes this month, the old woman runs
With one or two a penny hot cross buns.  (1733)

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Also similarities to the counting-out rhyme, "One potato, two potato":

Hot cross buns, hot cross buns,
One a penny, two a penny,
Hot cross buns.
If you have no daughters,
Give them to your sons,
One a penny, two a penny,
Hot cross buns.

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Variant in the form of folk chant related to New Zealand gold rushes, 1861, in Wangapeka (Nelson) and Tuapeka River (Otago):

Bright fine gold, bright fine gold,
Wangapeka, Tuapeka, bright fine gold. (1874)

Became transformed to first a lullaby and then the children's rhyme:

Bright fine gold, bright fine gold,
One a pecker, two a pecker, bright fine gold.(1880s - 1950s)

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Details re origins and variants can be found on the following website:
www.folksong.org.nz/bright_fine_gold/index.html
(accessed 15 January, 2007)

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For further details see entry beginning; "One a pecker".

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Location: Rotorua 
Group size: 2 
Incidence: 1