"Bye, baby Bunting" (Roud 11018) is an English-language nursery rhyme and lullaby. 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] To wrap the baby Bunting in.Kaye Bennett Dotson (2020). The Value of Games, p.66. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. . From 1784: 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.Eulalie Osgood Grover, ed. (1915). Mother Goose. P.F. Volland. . See also Little Baby Buntin' Notes External links Lullabies English nursery rhymes English folk songs English children's songs Traditional children's songs Year of song unknown Songwriter unknown