Bye, baby Bunting

"Bye, baby Bunting" (Roud 11018) is a popular English-language nursery rhyme and lullaby.

"Bye, baby Bunting"
Sheet music
Nursery rhyme
Published1784
Songwriter(s)Unknown

Lyrics and melody

The most common modern version is:

Bye, baby Bunting,
Daddy's gone a-hunting,
Gone to get a rabbit skin [To get a little rabbit's skin[1]]
To wrap the baby Bunting in.[2][3]

From 1784:[4]

Origins

The expression bunting is a term of endearment that may also imply 'plump'.[2] A version of the rhyme was published in 1731 in England.[5] A version in Songs for the Nursery 1805 had the longer lyrics:

Bye, baby Bunting,
Father's gone a-hunting,
Mother's gone a-milking,
Sister's gone a-silking,
Brother's gone to buy a skin
To wrap the baby Bunting in.[2][6][7]

Notes
  1. Rackham, Arthur (1913). Mother Goose: The Old Nursery Rhymes, p.4. Century Company.
  2. I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), p. 63.
  3. Kaye Bennett Dotson (2020). The Value of Games, p.66. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 9781475846416.
  4. Pamela Conn Beall, Susan Hagen Nipp (2002). Wee Sing Nursery Rhymes and Lullabies, p.50. Penguin Publishing Group. ISBN 9780843177664.
  5. "Weekly Essays". The Gentleman's Magazine. No. IV. London, England. April 1731. p. 150.
  6. Eulalie Osgood Grover, ed. (1915). Mother Goose. P.F. Volland. [ISBN unspecified].
  7. (1899). The Child Life Quarterly Volumes 1-2, p.94. C.F. Hodgson & Son
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