"Bye, baby Bunting" (
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nursery rhyme
A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and many other countries, but usage of the term dates only from the late 18th/early 19th century. The term Mother Goose rhymes is interchangeable with nursery rhymes.
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lullaby
A lullaby (), or cradle song, is a soothing song or piece of music that is usually played for (or sung to) children (for adults see music and sleep). The purposes of lullabies vary. In some societies they are used to pass down cultural knowled ...
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Lyrics and melody
The most common modern version is:
Bye, baby Bunting,
Daddy's gone a-hunting,
Gone to get a rabbit skin o get a little rabbit's skinTo wrap the baby Bunting in.I. Opie and P. Opie
Iona Margaret Balfour Opie, (13 October 1923 – 23 October 2017) and Peter Mason Opie (25 November 1918 – 5 February 1982) were an English married team of folklorists who applied modern techniques to understanding children's literature and ...
, ''The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes'' (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), p. 63.
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Origins
The expression bunting is a term of endearment that may also imply 'plump'.
[ A version of the rhyme was published in 1731 in England. 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.][ (1899). ]
The Child Life Quarterly
Volumes 1-2'', p.94. C.F. Hodgson & Son
See also
*''Little Baby Buntin'
''Little Baby Buntin is the third album by Killdozer, released in 1987 through Touch and Go Records. This album, as well as the earlier E.P. ''Burl'', have a much darker sense of humor (focusing primarily on the bleak aspects of society and peo ...
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Lullabies
English nursery rhymes
English folk songs
English children's songs
Traditional children's songs
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