Bye, baby Bunting
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| "Bye, baby Bunting" Roud #11018 |
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| Written by | Traditional |
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| Published | 1784 |
| Written | England |
| Language | English |
| Form | Nursery rhyme |
'Bye, baby Bunting' is a popular English language nursery rhyme and lullaby. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 11018.
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[edit] Lyrics
The most common modern version is:
- Bye, baby Bunting,
- Daddy’s gone a-hunting,
- Gone to get a rabbit skin
- To wrap the baby Bunting in.[1]
[edit] Origins
The term bunting is a term of endearment that may also imply 'plump'.[1] The earliest published version was published in Gammer Gurton's Garland or The Nursery Parnassus in England in 1784.[1] 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.[1]
[edit] In popular culture
- The rhyme was illustrated by the British artist, Randolph Caldecott (1846–86).
- The dystopian novel Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley contains the adapted reference 'Bye baby Banting, soon you'll need decanting'.
- A mysterious man summoned during an incantation gone awry in the urban fantasy novel The Magicians (2009) by Lev Grossman recites the rhyme shortly before vanishing again.
- "Each Peach, Pear, Plum" by Janet & Allan Ahlberg includes Baby Bunting as one of the characters "I spy".
- In the "The Good, The Bad and the Queen" project, Damon Albarn sings "Bye, baby bunting" in "The Bunting Song".
